teu
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| Attestation: | VA·6 (pelkui:pruiam:teu:karite:iṣ́os:kaṛite:palaṃ) (1) |
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| Language: | Lepontic |
| 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: | dēu̯-ū |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /dē(u̯)ū/ |
| Meaning: | 'Teu' |
Commentary
Masculine on-stem personal name in the nominative (Pisani 1953: 272 = 1964: 285). Probably hypocoristic from a compound with first element dēu̯o- 'god' (Lejeune 1971: 24, Delamarre 2007: 181, e.g. deuognata, deuorix, see the morpheme page). Phonetically, the form could be [dēu̯ū] with non-spelling of the glide (Lejeune 1971: 24, 62, Eska 1998c: 71, Eska & Mercado 2005: 164) or, theoretically, [dēū] with loss of the glide (or derived from a compound in which the element was already simplified, e.g. deopantus, cf. DLG: 142 f.).
Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 141 and Motta 2000: 196 also consider a reading tēu̯.
See also Stüber 1998: 108.
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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| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
| Eska & Mercado 2005 | Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184. |
| Eska 1998c | Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80. |
