atecua

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Attestation: VB·18 (atecua) (1)
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: ateku-ā Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: atekuā Attention, needs to be checked!
Meaning: "Atekua"

Commentary

The same name is also attested in Lepontic Script: see atekua
ate-(-kuo-), because of the writing -CVA instead of -QUA probably to be pronounced /kuā/ (Lejeune 1971: 59, fn. 167, 69)

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska 2006 Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235.