koliu
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| Attestation: | CO·66 (kopiụ), VR·19 (koliuetu) (2) |
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| Status: | uncertain |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | koli̯-ū |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /?ū/ |
| Meaning: | 'Koliu' |
Commentary
Reading of both possible attestations uncertain, see CO·66 and VR·19.
If not a chimera, the form is most likely a hypocoristic masculine on-stem personal name; no good etymology can be offered for the base/first element of the compound name – maybe kollīu̯- = affirmative or equative kom- + *līu̯o- 'colour, glow'? A handful of names in col- (colia, colianus (Liguria), collo, collus) are listed in Delamarre 2007: 217 et passim. Cf. koliuetu.
David Stifter, Corinna Salomon
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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