sunalei

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Attestation: TI·37 (ṣụnaḷei:makọ[) (1)
Language: perhaps Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. animate
Stem Class: i, cons. stem

Morphemic Analysis: sun-al-ei̯
Phonemic Analysis: /sunalei̯/
Meaning: 'for the son of Sun(is)'

Commentary

sun(n)-ali-, not as expected -alo- (patronymic suffix); cf. Sunicius, Sunilena ? (Lejeune 1971: 51, 52 fn. 131, 65 fn. 223, Motta 2000: 206, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139, cf. Delamarre 2007: 175, 233) Ending -al see also ualaunal, tunal. Danielsson 1909: 24

Bibliography

AcS Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Danielsson 1909 Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.