riśos
| Attestation: | BG·21 (riśoị) (1) |
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| Status: | unlikely |
| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | ?-os |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /???os/ |
| Meaning: | 'Riśos' |
Commentary
See the inscription page for the unlikely reading.
If correct, riśos must be a masculine o-stem personal name in the nominative (Solinas 1995: 334, no. 36), but the analysis of the base is unclear; see the inscription page for the reading of san. Morandi 2004: 664 (no. 224) (also 2003: 132, no. 13; 2007: 299, no. 25) identifies the base as rīg- (rix-), but this is hardly possible, as /s/ is the nominative ending and cannot be present in a derivation. Stifter 2010: 371 presumes that Morandi thinks of a suffix (*rīg-so-), but no s-stems of the root or any comparable Gaulish onomastic forms are attested. These issues also concern Verger's (2001: 286) rig-s-i̯os. An etymology involving rit- plus a dental suffix would be more plausible orthographically (tau gallicum cluster), but is equally unattested – tau gallicum occurs only in the related base ret- (*-ret-to-, NIL: 576).
