Cathubodua ( Proto-Celtic : * Katu-bodw? , "battle crow ") is the name of a Gaulish battle goddess .

Etymology [ edit ]

Cathubodua is the name of a Gaulish goddess derived from a single inscription at Mieussy in Haute Savoie , eastern France , ^[1] which actually reads ATHVBODVAE AVG SERVILIA TERENTIA S L M. ^[2] The text's restitution as Cathubodua depends on the assumptions that an initial C has been lost ^[3] and that the personal names ATEBODVAE, ATEBODVVS and ATEBODVI in 3 other inscriptions in modern Austria and Slovenia ^[4] are unrelated.

In the Gaulish language, the name Cathubodua is believed to mean battle-crow . ^{[5] [1]} Etymological lexical forms reconstructed in the University of Wales ' Proto-Celtic lexicon, suggest that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic * Katu-bodw? , a word that could be interpreted as ‘battle-fighting’. ^{[6] [7]} Nonetheless it is this second element * bodw? which appears to be the Proto-Celtic root of the later form of the name Badhbh . ^{[ citation needed ]} The masculine form * bodwos ('fighting') developed in Gaelic into Bodb . ^{[ citation needed ]}

She appears to be similar to the Irish goddess Badb Catha ; under this identification, Badb Catha would foresee the fate of warriors before the battle.

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