snaśiouitos

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Attestation:	VA·20 (ṣnaśịọụịṭoṣ §) (1)
Status:	probable
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	snaś-(i)i̯-o-u̯id-os or snaś-(i)i̯-o-u̯īt-os (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/????i̯ou̯i/īdos/ or /????i̯ou̯ītos/ (?)
Meaning:	'Snaśiouitos'

Commentary

See the inscription page for details about the reading.

Dithematic masculine o-stem personal name. The second element could be u̯ītu- 'withe, willow', though this usually occurs as first element in dithematic names; more likely, though not well attested, is u̯id- 'knowing' uel sim. (cf. especially CIL XIII 1036 epotsorouidi [gen., Aquitania], s. KGP: 210). The first element snaś(i)i̯o- (or possibly naś(i)i̯o-, see the inscription page) is unclear. Morandi 2001: 12 (no. 5) and 2004: 604 (no. 120) compares naśi- with VB·3.1 naśom, but the latter is probably a misreading.

David Stifter, Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Beltrán 1996	Francisco Beltrán (ed.), El tercer bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca) [= Collección Arqueología 19], Zaragoza: 1996.
Eska 2006b	Joseph F. Eska, "Remarks on the phonology, morphology, and orthography of Hisp.-Celt. LVGVEI and related matters", Emerita 74/1, 77–88.
Falileyev 2015	Alexander Falileyev, "Where linguistics fails: towards interpretations of some divine names in the Roman Danubian Provinces", in: Livio Zerbini (ed.), Culti e religiosità nelle province Danubiane. Atti del II convegno internazionale, Ferrara 20–22 Novembre 2013, Bologna: I Libri di Emil 2015, 167–176.