Name details
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name (attested) | Dresiu Luonis f(ilia) |
| Name (citation form) | Dresiu |
| Source | III 4908a, ILLPRON 249 |
| Source type | epigraphic |
| Type of inscription | sepulcral |
| Material | marble |
| Date and origin | |
| Location (modern) | Magdalensberg |
| Location (ancient) | Virunum |
| Community | Magdalensberg |
| District, region | Klagenfurt-Land |
| Population group | — |
| Date | — |
| Source of date | — |
| Linguistic notes | |
| Language | unknown, possibly Celtic |
| Gender | f. |
| Name type | IN |
| Use of name | IN + patronym |
| Word formation | simple |
| Prefix | — |
| First element | *dress-, *dristo- 'blackberry bush, thornbush' NPC 220 |
| Second element | — |
| Suffix | ion Kajanto 120 |
| Stem class | n |
| Case | nom. sg. |
| Semantic field | Plant |
| Other | |
| Relations | (F) Luo, (H) Tertio, (FiL) Nonno, (S) Crescentius |
| General notes | Regional context, names in Dres- attested in Noricum only; Holder I 1318 connects this name to Celt. *dressis, dressos 'blackberry bush' (cf. Ir. dris, W drys), cf. NPC 220, Lochner 71. |
| Other attestations | Dresia NOR 1 (RISt 308). |
| Secondary literature | NPC 89, Lochner 71f (Dresia), AlNor 234, Lochner 71f., Holder I 1317, AlNor 234, NPC 89, 220 |