)akur(

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Attestation:	CO·2 (]ạḳụṛ[) (1)
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown

Commentary

The fragmentary sequence cannot be analysed grammatically or etymologically, but a personal name is likely. -akur- does not appear in names in any other Cisalpine Celtic inscriptions; it does occur in names from Continental Celtic contexts, such as RIG L-18 dacurdus, the potter's name acurio (Osw. 3), and assorted names in cacur- (AcS I: 668 f., DLG: 96 – from cacu- '?') and sacur- (AcS II: 1283, secondary from sacro-?), though none of them are obviously Gaulish. Cf. also the (possibly Germanic) theonym CIL XIII 8166, 8167 bacurdo (Köln).

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)
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.