uosiu(
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Attestation: | TI·38 (]??i:uosiu[) (1) | ||
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Status: | probable | ||
Language: | prob. Celtic | ||
Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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Morphemic Analysis: | u̯os-i̯-ū or u̯os-i̯-ūi̯ (?) | ||
Phonemic Analysis: | /u̯osii̯ū/ or /u̯ossii̯ūi̯/ (?) | ||
Meaning: | '(for) Uosiu' (?) |
Commentary
See the inscription page on the reading.
The incomplete sequence is most likely a personal name with base u̯os- and suffix -i̯-; the last preserved letter upsilon could represent the on-stem nominative -ū or, typologically more likely, the beginning of the o-stem dative ending -ūi̯.
Bibliography
Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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