Albruna form. He similarly points to the celtic origin of the name Veleda and to Nedoma's criticism of Schramm. Schuhmann himself sees in Aurinia a mixed Celtic-Latin form consisting of the Latin prefix "aurum", borrowed from Celtic as in "aurum" for "gold" and the genuinely Celtic suffix "-inios", "-inia". He refers, among other things, to a male form of "Auriniacus". According to him, therefore, Aurinia had the original meaning "Goldine". An older attempt at an etymology is that of Gilbert Trathnigg cited by Helmut Birkhan. Trathnigg, who calls Aurinia the correct form, associates the name with the Old English "éar" (wave,
Commodity money a legal code. Several centuries after the invention of cuneiform script, the use of writing expanded beyond debt/payment certificates and inventory lists to codified amounts of commodity money being used in contract law, such as buying property and paying legal fines. Today, the face value of specie and base-metal coins is set by government fiat, and it is only this value which must be legally accepted as payment for debt, in the jurisdiction of the government which declares the coin to be legal tender. The value of the precious metal in the coin may give it another value, but this