koimila

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Attestation: VB·26 (tunal/koimila) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: koi̯m-il(l)
Phonemic Analysis: /koi̯mil(l)ā/
Meaning: 'Koimila'

Commentary

ā-stem personal name derived with hypocoristic -il(l)- from the base koi̯m- 'dear, pretty' (cf. Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 204), variants CIL II 2788 coemea, III 3792 coemonius, OIr. cóim 'pretty' (Matasović 2009: 220, LEIA: C-7, Sims-Williams 2003: 167, Delamarre 2007: 69, Meid 2005: 191).

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.