aruki

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Attestation:	BS·12 (aruki), BS·13 (aruki), BS·14 (aru[), BS·27 (aruki), BS·28 (aruki) (5)
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	aruk-ī
Phonemic Analysis:	/arugī/ (?)
Meaning:	'of Aruk(i)os'

Commentary

Personal name in the genitive. Tibiletti Bruno 1973: 166 compares CIL V 4536 arugus·iouincilli·f· (Brescia). Holder AcS I: 230 compares the latter arugus with CIL XIII 1462 arucae (Feurs), and lists further aruconius in Rome and Britain (cf. KGP: 135), and the toponym aruc(c)i (Aroche) in Spain. A Celtic aruko- could in principle be a hypocoristic formation in -uk- from a PN in are-, but it is not clear inhowfar the onomastic elements listed above belong together and are etymologically Celtic; arugos in the Brescia region is maybe better kept separate, and may be a loan from a non-Celtic sub-/adstrate.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)