lutou

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Attestation:	VB·3.3 (lutou:iii) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	lūt-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/lūtū/ (?)
Meaning:	'Lutu'

Commentary

The sequence is most likely an on-stem personal name in the nominative, possibly an abbreviation. The name lūtū is attested twice more in the Verbano, see lutu and luto. ⟨ou⟩ could denote long /ū/, though one wonders why in that case presumable /ū/ in the base was not also spelled like that; alternatively it may denote a local allophone with a more open pronunciation, or diphthongisation of -/ū/ to -/ou̯/; an orthographic compromise between the vernacular ending -ū and the Latinised ending -ō may also be possible. Cf. inou on the same object as well as uerkou (uel sim.), anatikou and prikou.

See also Rhŷs 1913: 62 f., no. 20 (c), Morandi 2004: 552.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Birkhan 2005	Helmut Birkhan, "UINOM NAŚOM", in: Franziska Beutler, Wolfgang Hameter (Eds.), "Eine ganz normale Inschrift" ... Vnd ähnLiches zVm GebVrtstag von Ekkehard Weber. Festschrift zum 30. April 2005 [= Althistorisch-Epigraphische Studien 5], Wien: Eigenverlag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Archäologie 2005, 223-228.