In Celtic mythology, Adsullata was a river goddess of the Continental Celts associated with the River Savus (Sava) in

Noricum Noricum () is the Latin name for the Celtic kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the north, ...

. This deity is known from a single inscription found at Saudörfel,

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. Later she came to

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...

from Celtic

Gaul Gaul ( la, Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first described by the Romans. It was inhabited by Celtic and Aquitani tribes, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, most of Switzerland, parts of Northern Italy (only during ...

and was believed to be a goddess of hot springs and the origin of the Anglo-Celtic sun goddess, Sul.

Etymology

This theonym appears to be derived from

Proto-Celtic Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, is the ancestral proto-language of all known Celtic languages, and a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is not attested in writing but has been partly reconstructed through the comparative method. Proto-Celti ...

*''Ad-sūg-lat-ā''. That derivation literally means (''allative'') "sucking liquid", which may have been a byword for the notion of "suck-giving liquid" The

Romano-British The Romano-British culture arose in Britain under the Roman Empire following the Roman conquest in AD 43 and the creation of the province of Britannia. It arose as a fusion of the imported Roman culture with that of the indigenous Britons, ...

form of this

reconstruction would likely have been *''Adsuglata''.Cf. http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf * http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0022226702001706 * http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74849&query=available%20name&ct= * http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74843&query=ogham&ct=

References

Gaulish goddesses Sea and river goddesses {{Celt-myth-stub