sipiu
| Attestation: | BI·8 (sipiu koil[ ]ios) (1) |
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| Language: | unknown |
| 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: | sip-i̯-ū |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /s??i̯ū/ |
| Meaning: | 'Sipiu' |
Commentary
on-stem personal name of uncertain etymology, also attested as base of a patronym sipionios. Comparanda for the base in Gaulish inscriptions are sparse (cf. Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 30) – AcS II: 1538 lists siberis and sibōra in Galatia, as well as (p. 1576) sippia in Moesia and CIL V 2327 siponis (gen.) in Adria. A base sīp- could be derived from the root PIE *seku̯- 'follow', but the irregular lengthened grade (*sēku̯i̯on- > *sīpi̯on-) requires explanation. In light of the strongly Latin-influenced context of the attestations, a Celticised Latin name could be considered, but the options is this direction are no better: Lat. scipiō, itself etymologically unclear, is formally equivalent, but should have been borrowed with the anlauting cluster intact (unless – hypothetically – the cluster was already realised as [sts] as early as the first half of the 1st century BC).
David Stifter, Corinna Salomon
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) |
| Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013 | Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013. |
| 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. |
