iap??i

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Attestation: TI·48.1 (iap??ị) (1)
Language: perhaps Celtic
Word Type: prob. proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. personal name

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. animate
Stem Class: ?

Morphemic Analysis: iap?-ei̯ or iap?-āi̯ (?)
Phonemic Analysis: unknown
Meaning: 'to/for Iap?is/Iap?a' (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on problems with the reading.

If the second-to-last letter is epsilon or alpha, the form may be a personal name in the dative i̯ap?ei̯ 'to/for Iapis' (i-stem) or i̯ap?āi̯ 'to/for Iap?a' (ā-stem). Names in iap- or iab- are not common in Continental Celtic, but see Delamarre 2007: 106 iabus, 107 iappus.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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