uvamokozis

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Attestation:	CO·48 (uvamokozis:plialeθu:uvltiauiopos:ariuonepos:siteś:tetu) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. animate
Stem Class:	i
Morphemic Analysis:	uv-am-o-gođ-is
Phonemic Analysis:	/uφamogotsis/ (?)
Meaning:	'Uvamokozis'

Commentary

i-stem compound personal name in the nominative, formed of a the preverb u̯o- in the superlative -am- 'highest' and gođ- 'guest', a bahuvrihi literally meaning 'having the most elevated guests'.

The second element was correctly identified already by Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: 313–315, who compared compound names from the Ligurian area (Cuneo) such as CIL V 7837 uilagosti (San Lorenzo di Caraglio), 7729 uelagostius (Bene Vagienna), 7853 uelacostai (Borgo San Dalmazzo), and concluded that zeta represents (the reflex of) *st. Prosdocimi 1967: 209–213 adds potential examples with tau gallicum > ss, more confident in connection with PIE *gʰosti-, and suggests that the first element is a superlative in -amo- of *upo- 'under' as in OI. upama 'uppermost, highest', with waw reflecting weakened */p/. Tibiletti Bruno 1968: 390 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1969: 1009, n. 48: upsamo-. Lejeune 1971: 60 f. u̯amo-go^tsis "le plus grand des hôtes" with <uv> for the anlauting glide, discusses the absence of both elements from Celtic onomastics otherwise despite Celtic sound change in both; Lejeune 1978: 111 now also waw as a reflex of */p/. Prosdocimi 1986: 241–245: upamo- can be expected in Celtic because of uertamo-, and gotsis is either a loan from a local language (pre-sound change or with Lautersatz) or inherited in this variety of Celtic, and again on -gassi-. Eska 1998c: 68–73 reviews previous analyses of the first element, then proposes (73 f.) that waw denotes [φ] < */p/ (affirmative KP: 133 f.; further on the exact form of the first element Isaac 2007: 11–20, Stifter 2011, Dupraz 2015). Markey & Mees 2003: 145 'having supreme guests' (already Watkins 1995: 245 f., as in OI. upama-śravas- < *upm̥mo-k̑leu̯es- 'having supreme fame', cf. also Germ. hlewa-gastir < *k̑leu̯o-gʰostis 'having famous guests' (Horn of Gallehus). Also in Venetic Pa 7.

De Bernardo Stempel 1990: 30, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 427, Prósper 2002: 250, n. 29, 210 f., n. 15, 344, Villar & Prósper 2005: 286, 307

See also Campanile 1968: 209, 211 f., Hamp 1974: 13, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 141 f., 188, Schmidt 1980: 181–183, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 178 f., Prosdocimi 1987: 567 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 103, Meid 1999: 17, Motta 2000: 197 f., NIL: 173, Delamarre 2007: 207, 223, Solinas 2010: 137 f.

Bibliography

Campanile 1968	Enrico Campanile, "Su due interpretazioni della iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207–213.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
De Bernardo Stempel 1990	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, "Einige Beobachtungen zu indogermanischem /w/ im Keltischen", in: Ann T. E. Matonis, Daniel Frederick Melia, Celtic language, Celtic culture. Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp, Van Nuys: Ford & Bailie 1990, 26-46.
De Bernardo Stempel 1999	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Dupraz 2015	Emmanuel Dupraz, "Nochmals zum lepontischen Digraphen uv-", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 69,1 (2015), 33–50.
Eska 1998c	Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.