piuonei

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Attestation:	TI·39 (piuonei:tekialui:lala) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	biu̯-onei̯
Phonemic Analysis:	/biu̯onei̯/
Meaning:	'to Biu'

Commentary

Masculine PN with individualising on-suffix meaning 'the living one' (cf. the names based on biu̯ont-) or hypocoristic of a compound with biu̯- as first element, cf. Gaulish biuonia (CIL V 4487; see Stüber 2005: 101 on the semantic motivation). The form is a rare attestation of the archaic consonant stem dat. sg. ending -ei̯.

See also Lejeune 1971: 62, Evans 1972: 186, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, Delamarre 2007: 149, McCone 1996: 42, 63, Stüber 1998: 13, 91, 108, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 106.

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
De Bernardo Stempel 1999	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Evans 1972	D. Ellis Evans, "A comparison of the formation of some Continental and early Insular Celtic personal names", Études Celtiques 13/1 (1972), 171–193.