set-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/set/- (?)
Attestation:	setupk, setupokios

Commentary

An element setu-/seti- (relation uncertain) is – beside the setubogios-group – attested occasionally in names like CIL XIII 10010 setus (potter's name), XIII 3894 setuleia (Narbonnensis), setuaianus, see Delamarre 2007: 232 et passim, AcS II: 1529 f. The meaning and etymology of set- are unclear. Dottin 1920: 286 connects it with Ir. sith- 'long'; critical Schmidt KGP: 268, but cf. Irslinger 2002: 141, who considers the possibility that *situ- and *setu- are ablaut variants. PIE *set- 'good, true' (NIL: 616 f.), which would be a good fit semantically for setubogios, is only reconstructed from Greek forms.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
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.
Dottin 1920	Georges Dottin, La langue gauloise. grammaire, textes et glossaire [= Collection pour l’étude des antiquités nationales 2], Paris: Klincksieck 1920.