eskikorikos

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Attestation:	VR·24 (eskikorikos) (1)
Language:	Cisalpine Gaulish
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	cons. stem
Morphemic Analysis:	eχs-king-o-rīg-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/eskingorīgos/
Meaning:	'of Eskingoriχs'

Commentary

The name eskingoriχs is attested in this form in Gaul (eskingorix, see Delamarre 2007: 100). The first two elements, the prefix eχs- 'out (of)' (dissimilated es- before the following guttural; cf. Raybould & Sims-Williams 2009: 154) and the verb king- 'step, stride' form a probably lexical verbal compound *esking- 'step out, attack' → 'foot-soldier, warrior' (in Gaulish personal names, e.g., escingus, excingius, excingomarus; see eskiko); the third element is rīg- 'ruler, king' to form 'king of warriors' (Stifter in Marchesini & Stifter 2018: 147), also in an epithet of of Mercury excingiorigiati (dat.). See KGP: 171 f., 212; GPN: 177, 202 f., DLG: 116, 169, Stüber 2005: 95 f., Meid 2005: 174, Delamarre 2007: 99 f.

Possibly also attested in abbreviation as es and eskiko.

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.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.