komeuios
Attestation: | NO·27 (komeuioṣ/kalatikn/os) (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: | o |
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Morphemic Analysis: | kom-ai̯u-i̯-os (?) |
Phonemic Analysis: | komeu̯ios (?) |
Meaning: | 'Komeuios' |
Commentary
Attested only once; no comparanda from Transalpine Gaul. The first element is most likely well-attested kom-; the second element eu̯(i)- is unclear. Considering the date of the attestation (second half of the 2nd c. BC), inherited /eu̯/ should be expected to have become /ou̯/; <e> might reflect monophthongised /ai̯/ (*ai̯u- 'lifeforce, lifetime'?), but this monophthongisation would be quite irregular. Gambari 2007: 257 suggests aui- 'desire, wish': 'he who shares the same desire', comparing CIL V 7526 (Acqui Terme) comaui (gen.) and the British ethnonym comauii (Ptolemy?), but /e/ for /a/ remains equally unexplained. In absence of a convincing analysis of the second element, it is unclear whether /i/ is part of the latter or whether the suffix is -i̯o-.
David Stifter, Corinna Salomon
Bibliography
CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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Gambari 2007 | Filippo M. Gambari, "Dormelletto. I documenti epigrafici in celtico cisalpino", Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte 22 (2007), 256–259. |