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Delamarre denies the existence of this word in Celtic, and instead derives many Gaulish derivatives, assigned here by De Bernardo Stempel, from the word family of *sounos(“sleep”) instead.
⇒ Celtiberian: Ebursunos(literally “Yewson”)(compound with *eburos(“yew”))
→⇒ Latin: Callīsunus(name of a Britannian man, borrowed from a very early Brittonic language, compound with *kallī(“woods”))
References
^ De Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2013) “Celtic ‘son’, ‘daughter’, other descendants, and *sunus in Early Celtic”, in Indogermanische Forschungen, volume 118, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 259-297
^ Delamarre, Xavier (2013) “Dea Sunuχsalis”, in Studia Celtica Fennica, volume 10, Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, →ISSN, pages 5–7
