Editing Adsullata

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In [[Celtic mythology]], '''Adsullata''' was a river goddess of the Continental Celts associated with the River [[Sava|Savus (Sava)]] in [[Noricum]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEcpkWjYOZQC&dq=%2Bnymph+%2Bsavus&pg=PA17 |title= Patricia Turner and Charles Russel Coulter. Dictionary of ancient deities. Oxford University Press, 2000. |isbn= 978-0-19-514504-5 |last1= Turner |first1= Patricia |last2= Coulter |first2= Charles Russell |year= 2001 |publisher= Oxford University Press }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Adsalluta |url=https://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/globalsearch_result.php?result_id=36282&page=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225070007/https://www.ubi-erat-lupa.org/globalsearch_result.php?result_id=36282&page=1 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=Ubi Erat Lupa}}</ref>

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 (deity)|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"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Database query to An etymological lexicon of Proto-Celtic (in progress) [Matasovic] |url=https://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211181501/http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic |archive-date=February 11, 2006 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |website=Pryifsgol Cymru University of Wales}}</ref> The [[Romano-British]] form of this [[Proto-Celtic]] reconstruction would likely have been *''Adsuglata''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Willis |first=David |title=The syntax of Welsh |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2003 |pages=1–62 |language=en |chapter=The diachrony of Brythonic Celtic syntax |chapter-url=http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051017055712/http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf |archive-date=October 17, 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |last2=Harris |first2=Alice C. |date=2002 |title=Syntactic reconstruction and demythologizing 'Myths and the prehistory of grammars' |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/abs/syntactic-reconstruction-and-demythologizing-myths-and-the-prehistory-of-grammars/1CCAF8B6730AB415A14E68DBC20CDFA1 |journal=Journal of Linguistics |language=en |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=599–618 |doi=10.1017/S0022226702001706 |issn=1469-7742|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Greene |first=David |title=Celtic languages |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74849&query=available%20name&ct= |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629002505/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/101778/Celtic-languages |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]}}</ref>

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[[Category:Gaulish goddesses]]
[[Category:Sea and river goddesses]]


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