plialeθu

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Attestation:	CO·48 (uvamokozis:plialeθu:uvltiauiopos:ariuonepos:siteś:tetu) (1)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. animate
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	bli-all-et-ū or pli-al-ed-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/blialletū/ or /plialedū/
Meaning:	'Plialeθu' (?)

Commentary

1) < *bli-alletos; <θ> stands for /t/ (Lejeune 1971: 59, fn. 168, fn. 169, 70, 99-100), or related to *Blios (of plioiso)? (Motta 2000: 198)
2) plios- is also known from plialo- (?) and Lat. Plinius and Pliamnus (cf. Gambari & Colonna 1986: 135, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 103-104, Markey & Mees 2003: 141, 146-149) Gentilicum related to Plinius? (cp. Markey & Mees 2003: 140-142, 144, Morandi 1999: 183, Gambari & Colonna 1986: 135, Suetonius: Illustr. frag. 80 in Reifferschied 1860: 92, CIL: V 5262, 5361, pars 2 p. 1123, Münzer et al. 1951: (Plinius in Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaft XXI, 1) 269-284, 456-457).

De Hoz 1990: 320 f. suggests that some of the Lepontic PNN in -u, particularly second names without patronymic suffixes, are patronyms formed with a gen. sg. ending -ū which derives from the ablative ending *-ōd (cf. affirmative Lejeune 1990: 77; Motta 2000: 197, Eska 1998c: 67, Eska 1995: 35-6, fn. 11, fn. 15, see also Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: 301, 316, (cf. commentary of Campanile 1968: 210), Tibiletti Bruno 1968: 388, Lejeune 1971: 53, Prosdocimi 1991: 160-161, Bader 1991: 95).

For other interpretations see Eska 1995: 36 fn. 10, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 142, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 179, Motta 1983: 65, Prosdocimi 1967: 216-217 (= verbum, cf. commentary of Campanile 1968: 212-213), Prosdocimi 1986: 235-236, 238-239 (appositive, second name element or verbum), Markey & Mees 2003: 138, 140 f.

See also Uhlich 1999: 293, Lejeune 1971: 21-22, 50, Eska & Mercado 2005: 178, fn. 41, Meid 1999: 17, Stüber 1998: 108, Villar & Prósper 2005: 344, Delamarre 2007: 149, cp. seχeθu, oletu, kiketu.

Bibliography

Bader 1991	Françoise Bader, "Problématique du génitif thématique sigmatique", Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 86/1 (1991), 89–157.
Campanile 1968	Enrico Campanile, "Su Due Interpretazioni dell'Iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207-213.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska & Mercado 2005	Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.
Eska 1998c	Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.