pe (enclitic)

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Attestation:	VB·3.1 (latumarui:sapsutai:pe:uinom:natom) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	particle
Grammatical Categories:
Morphemic Analysis:	-pe
Phonemic Analysis:	-/pe/
Meaning:	'and'

Commentary

First segmented and identified as an enclitic coordinating conjunction by Torp 1897: 4 and Kretschmer 1905: 100, -pe < PIE *-k^u̯e remains the only securely attested conjunction in Cisalpine Celtic. As noted by Lejeune 1971: 79 f., -pe with /k^u̯/ > /p/ corresponds to Celtiberian -kue and Italic forms (Latin -que, Faliscan -cue, Venetic -kve) in free use, while Transalpine Gaulish only attests incorporated apocopated -k (with /k^u̯/ > /k/ in word-final position) in RIIG CDO-01-19 (RIG: L-13) etic < h₁eti-k^u̯e (also at Chamalières), booking the form (p. 114) as a specifically Lepontic one (cf. De Hoz 1992: 228, Eska 1998: 7). See also Matasović 2009: 175 f.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Hoz 1992	Javier de Hoz, "Lepontic, Celt-Iberian, Gaulish and the archaeological evidence", Études celtiques 29 (1992), 223–240.
Eska 1998	Joseph F. Eska, "The linguistic position of Lepontic", in: Benjamin K. Bergin, Madelaine C. Plauché, Ashlee Bailey (eds), Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations, Berkeley, CA: 1998, 2–11.