uenia

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Attestation: NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class: i̯ā

Morphemic Analysis: u̯en-i̯ā Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: enā
Cognates in: Vena
Meaning: "Uenia" or "family"

Commentary

Maybe a hypochorism of a compound of veni- like uenu. Previous interpretations of this form as a vocative are dubious. Cf. Gaul. ουευιτοουτα, Venicarus, Venimarus, Vennus, Ogam annveni, OIr. fine meaning "family" (Lejeune 1971: 51, fn. 126, 62, fn. 190, 74, Hamp 1974: 14, Motta 2000: 213, RIG: I 106, Holder 1896-1907: III168-173, CIIC 214, KGP: 289-290, GPN: 277-279, DLG: 313, Delamarre 2007: 194, 195, 235-6, McCone 1996: 105, Matasović 2009: 413-4, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 371, IEW: 1147, Stüber 2005: 63, 91, De Vaan 2008: 661).

See also Eska & Evans 2009: 35; Pellegrini 1983: 36 (< *gwenia); Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149; McCone 1993.

Bibliography

CIL Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Danielsson 1909 Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska 1995b Joseph F. Eska, "Another look at Lepontic uenia", Beiträge zur Namenforschung 29/30 (1994/1995), 129–136.