atilonei
From Lexicon Leponticum
Attestation: | TI·12 (atilonei) (1) |
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Language: | Celtic |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. |
Stem Class: | on |
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Morphemic Analysis: | at(t)-il(l)-onei̯ |
Phonemic Analysis: | /atilonei̯/ or /attillonei̯/ |
Meaning: | 'to/for Atilu' |
Commentary
Personal name in the dative, formed with the suffix -il(l)- from a nondescript, but most probably Celtic base at(t)-. Formations with -il(l)- and geminate /tt/ (attillus, attillius) are attested in Transalpine Gaul (e.g. Rheinzabern and Windisch, see Delamarre 2007: 32, 212), while simple /t/ occurs in RIIG GAR-14-02 (RIG G-218) ατιλα as well as in Northern Italy: frequent atilius/-a (Untermann 1961: 4–7) and a full comparandum atilo in CIL V 6533 (Novara), also attested in the dative atiloni. See Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 201 and 202, 66, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143, Stüber 1998: 108, Motta 2000: 210 f., no. 19 (hypocorism of a compound name in ate-).
Bibliography
CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |