𐌐𐌓𐌄

Umbrian

Inherited from Proto-Italic *prai. Cognate with Latin prae.

𐌐𐌓𐌄 • (pre) (early Iguvine)

(followed by ablative) before; in front of
- early 2^nd century BCE, Iguvine Tablets, table I, side A (photo; facsimile), lines 2–3:
  ² [...] 𐌐𐌓𐌄𐌅𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔⁚𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔⁚ ³ 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄⁚𐌊𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌖𐌅𐌉⁚𐌕𐌓𐌄 𐌁𐌖𐌚⁚𐌚𐌄𐌕𐌖⁚ [...]
  preveres treplanes / iuve krapuvi tre buf fetu
  In front of the Trebulan gate sacrifice three oxen to Jupiter Grabovius.

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prae”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 485–487
Buck, Carl Darling (1904) “pre”, in A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 343
Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “pre”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 40

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