Adsullata Explained

In Celtic mythology, Adsullata was a river goddess of the Continental Celts associated with the River Savus (Sava) in Noricum.[1] [2]

Later she came to Brittany from Celtic Gaul and was believed to be a goddess of hot springs and the origin of the Anglo-Celtic sun goddess, Sul.

Etymology

This theonym appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *Ad-sūg-lat-ā. That derivation literally means (allative) "sucking liquid", which may have been a byword for the notion of "suck-giving liquid"[3] The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic reconstruction would likely have been *Adsuglata.[4] [5] [6]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Patricia Turner and Charles Russel Coulter. Dictionary of ancient deities. Oxford University Press, 2000. . 978-0-19-514504-5 . Turner . Patricia . Coulter . Charles Russell . 2001 . Oxford University Press .
  2. Web site: Adsalluta . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210225070007/https://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/globalsearch_result.php?result_id=36282&page=1 . February 25, 2021 . March 31, 2024 . Ubi Erat Lupa.
  3. Web site: Database query to An etymological lexicon of Proto-Celtic (in progress) [Matasovic] ]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060211181501/http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic . February 11, 2006 . March 30, 2024 . Pryifsgol Cymru University of Wales.
  4. Book: Willis, David . The syntax of Welsh . . 2003 . 1–62 . en . The diachrony of Brythonic Celtic syntax . http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf . https://web.archive.org/web/20051017055712/http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf . October 17, 2005 . dead.
  5. Campbell . Lyle . Harris . Alice C. . 2002 . Syntactic reconstruction and demythologizing 'Myths and the prehistory of grammars' . Journal of Linguistics . en . 38 . 3 . 599–618 . 10.1017/S0022226702001706 . 1469-7742.
  6. Web site: Greene . David . Celtic languages . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629002505/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/101778/Celtic-languages . June 29, 2011 . Encyclopædia Britannica.

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