tunal
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | VB·26 (tunal/koimila) (1) |
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| Language: | Lepontic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | prob. patronymic |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. animate |
| Stem Class: | cons. stem |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | dun-al |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /dunal/ |
| Cognates in: | Dunnō, Duno- |
| Meaning: | 'son/daughter of Tunos' (?) |
Commentary
Patronymic of tuno-, to be read /dun(n)o-/ (Lejeune 1971: 51-52, 65 fn. 228, Motta 2000: 206, Holder 1896-1907: I 1374-1376, KGP: 200-201, DLG: 154, cf. Delamarre 2007: 91, 186, 220, Sims-Williams 2003: 101); cognomen or functional title: Dun-al < *dunon "town, oppidum" (Markey & Mees 2003: 143, CIL: II 1589). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 152. Ending -al see also ualaunal, sunalei, cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 50.
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
| 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. |
