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Attestation:	BG·38 (al), CO·30 (al), CO·47 (pa) (3)
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

Attested (more or less unambiguously) in three unconnected inscriptions; quite possibly an abbreviation of a personal name in any or all of them (cf. Morandi 2003: 134, no. 16). The sequence al- appears initially in the personal names alios, alkouinos, alkouesi, and alaukos/alauki (see also the numerous Gaulish names in Delamarre 2007: 16–18); also alieis.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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