keivale

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Attestation:	AS 3.1 (minimu?uvanikekeivale), AS 3.2 (minimuluvanikekeiṿ[ ]eś) (2)
Language:	prob. Ligurian
adapted to:	Etruscan
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
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

Corinna Salomon

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.