)rkomui

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Attestation:	TI·34.3 (]rkomui:pal[) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	°rk-om-ūi̯ or u̯er-kom-ūi̯
Phonemic Analysis:	°/rkomūi̯/ or °/rgomūi̯/
Meaning:	'for °rkomos'

Commentary

Personal name in the dative. Possibly formed with the same obscure (local?) suffix -om- which appears to be attested in teromui, in which the base, if etymologically Celtic, could be any in °rk-/°rg. Motta 2000: 200 suggests terkomui, cf. names in derc- listed in Delamarre 2007: 84, AcS I: 1266 f., KGP: 192, GPN: 344. Another popular emendation is uerkomui, whose putative base (u̯erk-om-os*) can be compared with that of the personal name underlying the patronym uerkalai – see there for analysis options for that base. Alternatively, u̯erkomos could be analysed as a hypocoristic of a compound in u̯er-kom- (uercombogios, uerkondaridubnos, s. option 3 on uerkalai), thus Rhŷs 1913: 15 f., PID: 552, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 138 and Morandi 2004: 538 (also perkomui). See also Salomon 2024: 152.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.