minuku
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| Attestation: | TI·42 (minuku:komoneos) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | mīn-uk-ū |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /mīnukū/ |
| Meaning: | 'Minuku' |
Commentary
Simple on-stem personal name in the nominative, derived from the base mīni- 'gentle' with the hypocoristic suffix -uk-. Though the base's regular stem vowel is i (as in minicius/-a, see Delamarre 2007: 131 f.), a variant with u appears to be current in some areas including norther Italy, see the morpheme pages and cf. specifically CIL XIII 2744 minucia and the cognomen CIL V 6953 minuconius from Torino. See Rhŷs 1913: 17, Danielsson 1909: 23, n. 3, Lejeune 1971: 64, n. 212, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 140, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 161, Motta 2000: 205, Delamarre 2007: 134. See also Salomon 2024: 155.
Bibliography
| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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| Danielsson 1909 | Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909. |
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
