esopnos
| Attestation: | PV·1 (esopnos kepi) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | eχs-obn-os |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /esobnos/ (?) |
| Meaning: | 'Esopnos' |
Commentary
Personal name in the nominative. The name exomnos 'without fear' is well-attested in Transalpine Gaulish and Cisalpine Celtic (exomn(i)us/-(i)a and derivations exomnacius, exomnianius, in a compound exounomara, with ? of /ks/ exsomnus, exsobno, exsobinius). esopnos shows the pre-assimilation Lautstand of the root obn-, as do both other Cisalpine attestations VB·28 esopnio (patronym from esopno(s)) and VB·24 exobna) as well as, in Transalpine Gaulish, RIG M-175 exobnos (Loire), exsobno (potter's stamp, Augst), CIL XIII 6460 exobnus (Meiersheim). In the two attestations of the name in the Lepontic alphabet, */ks/ is spelled with simple sigma.
Lejeune 1971: 50, 54, fn. 139, 70, Stifter 2010: 372, Tibiletti Bruno 1965b: 570, n. 51, Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 161-171, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148, Delamarre 2007: 98
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. |
