esopnio

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Attestation: VB·28 (namu/esopnio) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: patronymic

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

Morphemic Analysis: eχs-obn-(i)i̯-o(s)
Phonemic Analysis: /esobn(i)o/
Meaning: 'the Esobnian'

Commentary

Patronym in -(i)i̯- from a name esobn(ii̯)os with loss of final /s/; cf. the other two. See Lejeune 1971: 54, n. 139, 70, Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: 260, 262, Eska 1998c: 71, Stifter 2010: 372, Eska 1995: 43, fn. 32, GPN: 397-398. See also Ferrero 1897: 58 f., no. 2, Rhŷs 1913: 51, Pisani 1964: 282, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 172, Solinas 1995: 375, Morandi 2004: 568.

Bibliography

Eska 1995 Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.
Eska 1998c Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.
Ferrero 1897 Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.