kuimpalui

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Attestation: TI·43 (]ọni:kuimpaḷui:pạḷạ) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: perhaps Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: patronymic

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o

Morphemic Analysis: kom-u̯imp-al-ūi̯ (?)
Phonemic Analysis: /kuimpalūi̯/ (?)
Meaning: 'for the son of Kuimpos'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the reading.

Patronym derived with suffix -al- in the dative. If the underlying personal name kuimpos is Celtic, it could possibly have either preserved /k/ (Eska 2006: 232, n. 7) or rare /g/ < PIE *gu̯h. Alternatively, one might consider a compound with preverb kom- and second element u̯imp- 'pretty' with assimilated /m/ and /o/ (/kuu̯V/- < /kou̯V/- < /komu̯V/) as per Stifter 2003: 240 f. (cf. kuaśoni). See also Salomon 2024: 152.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.
Eska & Evans 2009 Joseph F. Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 28–53.
Eska 2006 Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235.