setupokios

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Attestation:	NO·21.1 (tanotaliknoi/kuitos/lekatos/anokopokios/setupokios/esanekoti/anareuiśeos/tanotalos/karnitus), TI·23 (setupokios) (2)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	setu-bog-i̯-os or sentu-bog-i̯-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/setubogi̯os/ or /sentubogi̯os/
Meaning:	Setubogios

Commentary

Dithematic personal name which is attested repeatedly in the Cisalpine Celtic corpus (cf. also abbreviated setupk). While the second element can be clearly identified as the common Gaulish bogi̯o- 'striker', two options are feasible for the first. Schmidt 1991: 363 and Delamarre DLG: 271 identify it as sentu- 'path', with is attractive semantically: 'who beats a path [knowing the Gauls, probably through enemy lines]'. A name setubogius, however, is attested in Transalpine Gaul (CIL XIII 3487 setubogius [Amiens], RIG M-261 setubo[ [coin legend], and see setu- for further attestations of the base); Cisalpine Celtic ⟨setupokios⟩ is usually equated with this name (e.g. Tibiletti Bruno 1965c, 86 f., Lejeune 1971: 55, Motta 2000: 214).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.