-
modern Celtologists regard the
tribal name
Uolcae (sing.
Uolcos) as
stemming from a
Gaulish noun
uolcos,
uolca ('hawk, falcon'),
which can be
compared with...
-
Gaulish personal name Catu-
uolcos ('war-falcon, battle-hawk') is a
compound formed with the stem catu- ('battle')
attached to
uolcos ('falcon, hawk'). The...
-
second element, -comici, is unknown. The name
Volcae stems from
Gaulish uolcos ('hawk').
Their chief town
Nemausus was
inhabited since the
Bronze Age;...
- catu-uolcus ('war-falcon'),
formed with the stem catu- ('combat')
attached to
uolcos ('falcon, hawk'). The
Eburonean name has an
exact parallel in the Welsh...
-
Gaulish *
uolco-, see
Xavier Delamarre,
Dictionnaire de la
langue gauloise (Editions Errance), 2001:274-6, and for
examples of
Gaulish *
uolco- in various...
- from Old
Brittonic *wealkos. In particular, the
Gaulish personal name Catu-
uolcos has an
exact parallel in the
Welsh cadwalch ('hero, champion, warrior')...
