)kiφisi

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Attestation: BG·20 (]kicrisi) (1)
Status: unlikely
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o

Morphemic Analysis: ?
Phonemic Analysis: /kibisī/
Meaning: 'of Kibisos'

Commentary

See the inscription page on the highly dubious reading.

The sequence could be analysed as a masculine personal name in the genitive, whose base could be compared with the personal name cibisus (Delamarre 2007: 64).

David Stifter, Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.