akisios

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Attestation:	VC·1.2 (akisios:arkatokok/materekos:toṣ́o/kote:aṭom:teuoχ/tom:koneu) (1)
Language:	prob. Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	akis-(i)i̯-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/akis(i)i̯os/
Meaning:	'Akisios'

Commentary

o-stem personal name in the nominative; the base is also attested in CIL XIII 11362 acisilliae (Metz), III 4871 acisonio (Klagenfurt), and in the Venetic area: V 491 acisinus (Capodistria), Venetic Es 74 ]a·kisi[ ]o[ emended akisinioi (dat.). Lejeune 1977: 601 assumes that the name is "commune donc aux répertoires vénète et gaulois", but 1988: 33 "sans doute de la composante celtique du stock onomastique vénète". Delamarre 2007: 209 files the names under a base aki-, but this has no clear etymology, and -s- is unmotivated. Meid 1989: 12 "letztlich idg, *ak̑- 'spitz'. Untermann 1961b according to Pellegrini & Prosdocimi 1967 II: 48 compares names in ax(s)i- (cf. aśouni), which is not informative in terms of etymology. Tibiletti Bruno 1977: 362 f. also compares names in agis-, specifically CIL III 5542 agisi (Salzburg), 10883 agisi (Ptuj) (also 1978: 154, 1981: 192 f.), noting doublets of names in akis- and agis-, and the high number of attestations in eastern Europe. Evans GPN: 131 f. lists acis- (and also agis-) among a group of bases which may in part be variants (akit-, akid-, agid-, ages-, aked-, cf. aged-), with the "original" forms and etymologies being largely unclear.

See also Villar & Prósper 2005: 271.

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.