krasanikna
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| Attestation: | NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | patronymic |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. fem. |
| Stem Class: | ā |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | krasan-ikn-ā |
| Phonemic Analysis: | ?-/iknā/ |
| Meaning: | 'daughter of Krasanos' |
Commentary
Patronym in -ikn- from a personal name krasan(i)os. The best comparanda, already brought in by Rhŷs 1913: 59, are names in krax, especially CIL XII 3577 craxanii, see AcS I: 1157, Delamarre 2007: 77, 218, cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 150, DLG: 129, Delamarre 2007: 77, 218). The meaning of craxanto-, craxo- may be 'toad', cf. dial. Fr. graisset, OProv. graissan, Catal. grexá 'toad'. See also Evans 1972: 181, Eska & Evans 2009: 35. Lejeune 1971: 50, 52, 64 n. 208 Grasinius.
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| 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. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
