ciami

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Attestation:	BG·22 (c̣iami) (1)
Status:	probable
Language:	Celtic
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	gi̯am-(-(i)i̯-)ī or gi̯am-(-(i)i̯-)ī
Phonemic Analysis:	/ki̯amī/ (?)
Meaning:	'of Ciam(i)os'

Commentary

See the inscription page on problems with the reading.

Morandi 2004: 664 f. (no. 225) (also 2003: 132 f., no. 14, Morandi 2007: 299, no. 26) compares ciamos and ciamilus (also ciamonus) listed in AcS I: 1009. These names are probably (spelling?) variants of names in gi̯am- 'winter' (cf. giamos, giamillus, giamonius, DLG: 178 f., giamicius on a 1^st c. Roman stela from Casalzuigno, Varese, Sartori 2009: 218, VA18.02). The mechanics of /k/- vs. /g/- are unclear; cf. maybe kia?

Corinna Salomon, Michela Vignoli

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.