mokk-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'pig, boar' |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /mokk/- |
| From PIE: | *mo(H)-pk̑-u- 'big? stock' (?) |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *mokku- |
| Attestation: | moc, moconis |
Commentary
Personal names in mokk-, sometimes with simplified cluster mok-, are particularly well attested in Liguria and northern Italy (e.g. CIL V 7749 moco, 6644 mocconis [gen.], 7147 moccius, 6042 moccilonis [gen.], 7673 moccasus, see AcS II: 602–605, Delamarre 2007: 134, 227). They are connected with OIr. mucc, W moch, Corn. mogh, Bret. moc’h 'pig' (KGP: 243, Meid 2005: 201, DLG: 228, LEIA: M-68, Matasović 2009: 274 f.). Testen 1999 suggests a PIE etymology < *mo(H)-pk̑-u- 'big? livestock' with zero-grade of *pek̑u- as second element (cf. Stifter 2024: 11 f.).
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. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
