The Celtic toponymy of Italy are the place names that, through the reconstruction of the historical and linguistic origin, are attributed to language of Celts allocated once in Italy, between the northern regions and in some areas of central Italy.
| Small Celtic lexicon |
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| ambe- ‘river’ |
| banna-, benna- ‘tip, top’ |
| -bona ‘foundation’, ‘oppidum’ |
| briga ‘hill’, ‘fortress’ |
| brīva ‘bridge’ |
| cambo- ‘curve, meander’ |
| cumba 'Cavity', 'valley' |
| dubus, dubis ‘black’ |
| dūno- ‘fortress’, ‘mountain’ |
| duro- 'square, market' |
| eburo- ‘yew (sacred tree)’ |
| -ialo- ‘glade’ |
| lāno- 'plain' / 'full' |
| -late ‘swamp’ |
| lindo- ‘liquid’, ‘pool’ |
| mago- ‘field’, ‘market’ |
| nantu-, nanto- ‘valley’, ‘creek’ |
| nemeto- ‘sacred grove’, ‘sanctuary’ |
| -rāte, rātis- ‘wall’, ‘forte’ |
| redo- ‘to ride’, ‘to travel’ |
| rito- ‘woad’ |
| verna, verno, sberna, ‘alder’ |
| vindo- ‘white’, ‘bright’, ‘sacred’ |
It deals with linguistic varieties of "fragmentary attestation " from two strands of Celtic peoples: 1) the oldest, perhaps already settled in the Bronze Age, the ancestors of the Celts of Golasecca culture, who spoke a language (the so-called Lepontic language) which is more archaic, more conservative Gaulish language; 2) groups of Gauls that penetrated in Italy in the fourth century BC (and probably also in earlier stages) .
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