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used a single Celtic word, which his excerptors glossed in different ways, so that Diodorus's , Strabo's and Ammanius's euhages designate the same group. The form euhages is usually explained as a corruption or gloss of ouáteis, perhaps influenced by the Greek adjective heuageis (???????; 'pure, holy'). The suggestion that euhages is itself a Gaulish word, as advanced by Jean-Louis Brunaux, has been rejected by Bernhard Maier for want of a credible Celtic etymology.

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