kuimpalui

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Attestation:	TI·43 (]ọni:kuimpaḷui:pạḷạ) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	kuimp-al-ūi̯
Phonemic Analysis:	/?????alūi̯/
Meaning:	'for the son of Kuimpos'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the reading.

Patronym derived with suffix -al- in the dative. If the underlying personal name kuimpos* is Celtic, it may have either preserved /k^u̯/ or rare /g^u̯/ < PIE *g^u̯h. Alternatively, one might consider ko(m)-u̯impos* with second element u̯imp- 'pretty' (s. DLG: 320), following the method of Delamarre 2007: 78, who analyses the anlaut of names in kua° as ko(m)-u̯at- (CIL XIII 5510 cuatasius [Dijon], cuatilus [Heiligenberg], with u̯ati- 'prophecy'), cf. kuaśoni.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska & Evans 2009	Joseph F. Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 28–53.
Eska 2006	Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235.