sasamos
Attestation: | VB·1 (ṣasamos) (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: | sags-am-os (?) |
Phonemic Analysis: | /sas(s)amos/ |
Meaning: | 'Sasamos' |
Commentary
Compared with saxamus attested in Carinthia and France (e.g. CIL III 4909 saxami at Maria Saal, XIII 2766 saxxamus at Autun, 2881 saxsami at Alise-Sainte-Reine) by Rhŷs 1914: 26; saxamus is connected with the base sag- 'seek' by Delamarre 2007: 231, though the origin of -s- (old sigmatic formation? part of the superlative suffix?) is unclear. The spelling with sigma in Lepontic would then reflect the simplification of the cluster [χs] > [s(s)] (Lejeune 1971: 64 f., n. 220; see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages), though saxamus is not attested with such a spelling elsewhere. Names in sas(s)- (Holder AcS I: 1373 f., Delamarre 2007: 161), which are also attested in northern Italy (Untermann 1959: 128 f. sassius), are assumed to be ascribed to a "verbreitete[n] vorkeltische[n] Schicht" by Meid 2005: 284. Often compared with saśadis, which would indicate a different etymology. See also Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 9–12, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 165.
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. |