nimonikna

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Attestation:	NO·20 (]?ọ[/]ṭọ[]ịkṇọṣ/ṃatopokios/sola/nimoniknạ) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	nem-on(-(i)i̯)-ikn-ā (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/ni/īmoniknā/
Meaning:	'daughter of Nimu/Nimon(i)us'

Commentary

Feminine patronym in -ikn-, formed from either an on-stem nimū or an o-stem nimon(ii̯)os (itself derived from nimū). Names in nim- are only very sporadically attested in Gaulish (Delamarre 2007: 141 has one each of nimus and nimius); the best comparanda seem to be AE 1999, 71 nemonius, CIL XII 3450 nemonia. See nem- on the options for the analysis of these names; since variation between short /e/ and /i/ would be irregular (but see GPN: 392), this comparison may support an etymology involving /ē/ (see dēu̯- on variation between /ī/ and /ē/).

See also Motta 1995: 131 f., Morandi 2004: 584.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
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.