)otukios

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Attestation: BI·3 (]ọṭụḳịos) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. patronymic

Grammatical Categories: nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class: i̯o

Morphemic Analysis: °ot-uk-(i)i̯-os
Phonemic Analysis: °/o(n)t(t)/duk(k)(i)os/
Meaning: '(son) of °otuk(i)os' (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

If correct, the sequence is a patronym in -(i)i̯os of a name formed with a k-suffix; potential comparanda from Transalpine Gaul include botuca, cotuco and motuc(i)us (see Delamarre 2007: X).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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