śuro
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| Attestation: | MI·10.6 (śuro) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. |
| Stem Class: | o, on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | dūr-o(s) or dūr-ū |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /dūro/ or /dūrō/ |
| Meaning: | 'Śuro' |
Commentary
Personal name in the nominative, either an o-stem with loss of final /s/ (see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages), or an on-stem with substitution of /ū/ with /ō/ under Latin influence. See Stifter 2010: 372 on the reading of san as /d/. The name could be connected with Latin names in dur-, which are derived from Lat. dūrus 'hard' (cf. Stifter ibid.), but the base dur- is also well attested in Celtic onomastics (and may have the same etymology, see dūr-). If an on-stem, the name is a hypocoristic, while a thematic formation without a suffix *dūros would be reminiscent of Lepontic simplex names (see Onomastics).
