sapsutai
From Lexicon Leponticum
Attestation: | VB·3.1 (§latumarui:sapsutai:pe:uinom:natom) (1) |
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Language: | Lepontic |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. fem. |
Stem Class: | ā |
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Morphemic Analysis: | sapsut-āi̯ Attention, needs to be checked! |
Phonemic Analysis: | sapsutāi̯ |
Meaning: | "to Sapsuta" |
Commentary
1) *sap-so-uto- or *sab-so-uto- 2) *saps-uto-, in this case the root would not be Celtic because of *ps > ks as in uxamo-, uxello- (Lejeune 1971: 51, 64 fn. 219, 70 fn. 239, Delamarre 2007: 160; for phonetic matters cp. Eska 1998c: 71-72); cf. Sapsa (Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 188)
Bibliography
Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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Eska 1998c | Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80. |