)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, but both -akur- and -agur- do occur in (more or less obviously Gaulish) names from Continental Celtic contexts, such as RIIG VAU-05-05 (RIG G-121) μ̣αγουρειγ̣ι (Cavaillon), RIG M-205 magurix (coin legend), 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-?). Cf. also the (possibly Germanic) theonym CIL XIII 8166, 8167 bacurdo (Köln). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 204, Morandi 2004: 624.

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.