runelos

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Attestation:	TI·11 (rupelos) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	rūn-el-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/rūnelos/ or /rūnellos/
Meaning:	'Runelos'

Commentary

See the inscription on the uncertain reading.

The form is an o-stem personal name formed with an l-suffix (see -il(l)-) from the base rūn- 'secret', cf. Lejeune 1971: 64, n. 218, Motta 2000: 212. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143 alternatively cites isolated rundo (CIL XIII 6177).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)