Editing Esus (section)

===As an element of proper names===
[[File:Ex Voto MAN St Germain.jpg|thumb|A [[votive]] bust dedicated by a man with the name "Esumopas Cnusticus"]]
Esus's name is an element in a handful of personal names. His name is more common in personal names than in inscriptions.<ref name=Meid/>{{rp|35}} {{ill|Karl Horst Schmidt|de}} lists Esugenus{{efn|1= {{CIL|13|4674}}, also on a coin legend in [[Alfred Holder|Holder]], ''Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz'' '''I''', p. [https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10930326?page=782 1475].}} ("Fathered by Esus"), Esumagius{{efn|{{CIL|13|3071}}.}} ("Powerful through Esus"), Esumopas{{efn|{{CIL|13|3199}}.}} ("Slave to Esus"), and Esunertus{{efn|1= {{CIL|12|2623}}, ''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum|CIL]]'' [https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_publication=CIL+07%2C+01334,61&r_sortierung=Belegstelle VII, 1334,61], {{CIL|13|11644}}.}} ("Having the power of Esus").<ref name=Schmidt>{{cite book |last=Schmidt |first=Karl Horst |title=Die Komposition in gallischen Personennamen |location=Berlin / New York |publisher=De Gruyter |date=1957 |doi=10.1515/9783111673158  |isbn=978-3-11-128841-3 }}</ref>{{rp|211}} Other personal names connected with Esus include Aesugesli,{{efn|{{AE|2003|1218}}}} Esullus,{{efn|1={{cite book |last=Lochner von Hüttenbach |first=Fritz |date=1989 |title=Die römerzeitlichen Personennamen der Steiermark |location=Graz, Austria |publisher=Leykam |page=75 }}}} and (on a British coin) Æsus.<ref name=Hofeneder2/>{{rp|323}}<ref name=deVries>{{cite book |last=de Vries |first=Jan |title=Keltische Religion |date=1961 |url=https://archive.org/details/keltischereligio0000vrie |url-access=registration |location=Stuttgart |publisher=W. Kohlhammer }}</ref>{{rp|98}} [[Bernhard Maier]] is sceptical that the god's name is part of the etymologies of all of these names.<ref name=Maier>{{cite book |last=Maier |first=Bernhard |title=Die Religion der Kelten: Götter – Mythen – Weltbild |location=München |publisher=C. H. Beck |date=2001 }}</ref>{{rp|92}}

Other Celtic names perhaps incorporating Esus include the tribe-name [[Esuvii]] (perhaps "sons of Esus", from [[Sées]]);<ref name=Hofeneder1>{{cite book |title=Die Religion der Kelten in den antiken literarischen Zeugnissen |volume=1 |last=Hofeneder |first=Andreas |date=2005 |location=Wien |publisher=Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften }}</ref>{{rp|172}} the river-name [[Esino]] (in Italy);<ref name=deBernardoStempel/>{{rp|120}} and the place-names [[Aesica]] (in [[Northumberland]]),<ref name=Hofeneder3/>{{rp|510}} Aeso (in [[Hispania Tarraconensis]]),<ref name=deBernardoStempel/>{{rp|119}} and [[Essé]] (in [[Brittany]]).<ref name=MacKillopEsus/>