aśkoneti
| Attestation: | TI·41 (alkouinos/aśkoneti) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | patronymic |
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| Grammatical Categories: | gen. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o, i̯o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | ad-gonn-et(-i̯)-ī |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /adgonnetī/ |
| Meaning: | '(son) of Aśkonet(i)os' |
Commentary
Compound personal name in the genitive, with patronymic function in the only attestation (Lejeune 1971: 52, Evans 1972: 182, Lejeune 1990: 71). Also attested in Cisalpine Celtic aśkonetio in the nominative, and in Gaulish in the genitive adgonneti (Narbonnensis), without the derivative suffix RIIG GAR-01-01 (RIG G-156) αδγοννος (Alès), CIL XII 3370 adgonna (Nîmes) (see AcS I: 41, KGP: 113, Delamarre 2007: 12, 28, 210). aśkonetio indicates that the underlying form of the genitive attestations is also a i̯o-stem.
While the preverb ad- (Stifter 2010: 372) and the derivative suffix -et- are clear, the exact semantics of the base gonn- (see the morpheme page for details) and therefore of the entire name are uncertain. Lejeune 1971: 57 f., n. 156 translates 'belonging to the gens' without taking the derivative (agentive?) suffix into account.
An alternative analysis is proposed by Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 151, who assumes that -et- is suffixed to a name like asconius (cf. Schmidt's explanation of gon(n)- summarised on the morpheme page).
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. |
| Evans 1972 | D. Ellis Evans, "A comparison of the formation of some Continental and early Insular Celtic personal names", Études Celtiques 13/1 (1972), 171–193. |
