kituaretos

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Attestation:	MI·24 (kituaretos?) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	kint-u-a-ret-os (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/kentu̯aretos/ (?)
Meaning:	'Kituaretos'

Commentary

Compound personal name with first element kintu- 'first' (cf. Casini & Motta 2011: 467); the latter part of the formation is unclear. A comparandum exists in the Galatian name centaretus (Pliny; also κεντοαράτης Aelianus, cintaretus Solinus; AcS I: 988 f., Freeman 2001: 37 f.), showing that the dental is /t/ rather than /d/. The second element could thus be ret- 'run, race' (rather than rēd- 'ride, drive'), but the function of -a- is unclear. Alternatively, ⟨u⟩ could reflect both the stem vowel and anlauting u̯- of a second element *u̯ar-, which is sporadically attested in Gaulish onomastics (see Delamarre 2007: 235 and cf., unlikely, uarsileos) – kintu-u̯ar-et-os? The analysis of the second part as "deformed" ateratos suggested by Casini & Motta (ibid.) is not plausible.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
Casini & Motta 2011	Stefania Casini, Filippo Motta, "Alcune iscrizioni preromane inedite da Milano", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 19 (2011), 459–469.
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.
Freeman 2001	Philip Freeman, The Galatian Language. A Comprehensive Survey of the Language of the Ancient Celts in Graeco-Roman Asia Minor [= Ancient Near Eastern Texts and Studies 13], Lampeter – Queenston: Edwin Mellen Press 2001.