keivale
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Attestation: | AS 3.1 (minimu?uvanikekeivale), AS 3.2 (minimuluvanikekeiṿ[ ]eś) (2) |
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Language: | prob. Ligurian |
adapted to: | Etruscan |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
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Morphemic Analysis: | keiv-al- 2e |
Phonemic Analysis: | — |
Meaning: | 'Keivale' |
Commentary
Etruscan personal name in -e in the nominative, suggested to be an Etruscanised Ligurian name by Gambari & Colonna 1988: 154. Though Colonna considers it to be formed with the Lepontic patronymic suffix -al-, he subsequently compares only Ligurian forms, specifically enistale, and the Ligurian toponym *caeva for the base. The l-suffix is altogether more likely to be the PN-forming -al- 2, so that the name has no immediate connection with Cisalpine Celtic. Colonna suggests that the later Etruscan gentilicium cevlna at Volterra is derived from this loan name (*keivalena).
See also Colonna 1998: 263, Sassatelli 2008: 338
Bibliography
Colonna 1998 | Giovanni Colonna, "Etruschi sulla via delle Alpi occidentali", in: Liliana Mercando, Marica Venturino Gambari (eds), Archeologia in Piemonte. Volume I: La preistoria, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte 1998, 261–266. |
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