Ambarri
gallic tribe
The Ambarri were a Gallic people dwelling in the modern Ain department during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
The name is given as Ambarri by Julius Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), and by Livy (late-1st c. BC).
The Gaulish ethnonym Ambarri could mean 'on both sides of the Saône river', stemming from the Gaulish suffix amb- ('around') attached to the pre-Celtic name of the Saône river, Arar.
It has also been interpreted as a contraction of Ambi-barii ('the very-angry'), formed with the intensifying Gaulish suffix ambi- attached to bar(i)o- ('wrath, fury, passion'; cf. Welsh am-far 'mad rage', Old Irish barae 'fury, anger').
The place names of Ambérieu-en-Bugey, attested ca. 853 as Ambariacus (Ambayreu in 1240), Ambérieux-en-Dombes, attested in 501 as Ambariaco (Ambaireu in 1226), and Ambérieux, attested in 892 as Ambariacum, are named after the tribe. They originally derive from a form Ambarria attached to the suffix -acos.
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