aśouni

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Attestation:	VB·27 (aśounị/atekua) (1)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	atsoun-ī or adou̯n-ī Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis:	atsounī or adou̯nī Attention, needs to be checked!
Cognates in:	Axiounos
Meaning:	of Aśounos

Commentary

If *powno- > *fobno- > *omno-, the U of aśouni could represent the (nasalised) labial fricative (cp. the hesitancy in Old British orthography regarding the representation of this sound).
1) ś < *ksi̯ as in Gaul. Axionus? (Lejeune 1971: 19, 419 fn. 198 Stifter 2010: 371, Uhlich 2007: 384, IEW: 52 (Axona ??), cp. amaśilu) 2) *ad-omno- < *ad-obno-, cf. OIr. Adomnán, but *bn > *u̯n does not occour in esopnos (PV·1) and esopnio (VB·28, Stifter 2010: 372)
See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153, Delamarre 2007: 28, Villar & Prósper 2005: 328, Prósper 2002: 206-208. Gen. case in patronymic function (compare Lejeune 1971: 52, 63 fn. 200, Lejeune 1990: 71)

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.