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What does the name Coventina mean or derive from?

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No literary source or inscription outside her own shrine explains what her name means or where it comes from. The name survives only as a religious dedication carved on Roman-period altars at one site, with no surrounding text to gloss it.

What would resolve this A comparative Celtic and Brittonic etymological study of the name against known place and water-deity name elements, and continued epigraphic survey in case an uninscribed or fragmentary dedication elsewhere in Roman Britain or Gaul preserves a related or explanatory form.
OpenCeltic and Brittonic historical linguistics; Romano-British epigraphyJames MacKillop, A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
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Coventina, Deities
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A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
James MacKillop, Oxford University Press, 1998View the Source
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