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,
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