toutoris

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Attestation:	VR·26 (toutoris) (1)
Language:	Cisalpine Gaulish
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	cons. stem
Morphemic Analysis:	tou̯t-o-rīg-s
Phonemic Analysis:	/tou̯torīχs/
Meaning:	'Toutoriχs'

Commentary

The name toutoriχ, a compond of tou̯ta 'people, tribe' and *rīg- 'ruler, king' meaning 'ruler of the people', is well-known from other Celtic languages, e.g., Gaul. (probable) toutorix, toutiorix (epithet of Apollon) from the derivation toutios 'citizen' DLG: 300, Delamarre 2007: 184), OW tutir, MW tudur (Anglicised tudor), as well as from Germanic equivalents (Goth. þiudareiks etc.).

It is not clear whether final -⟨s⟩ represents the cluster [χs], or whether the non-spelling of [χ] indicates that the cluster had already been reduced to a simple sibilant in this position; cf. ośoris (Stifter in Marchesini & Stifter 2018: 147).

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.