ilauki
| Attestation: | VA·21 (ilauki) (1) |
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| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | gen. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o, i̯o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | il-auk-ī |
| Phonemic Analysis: | unknown |
| Meaning: | 'of Ilauk(i)os' |
Commentary
Masculine personal name, o- or i̯o-stem, in the genitive. Morandi 2004: 605 (no. 121) compares alaukos/alauki as well as Celtib. elaukos (Botorrita II 2.17), though it is not clear how the different anlauts could relate to each other. What appears to be a suffix -auk-, presumably a variant of the velar suffix (see -āk-, -ik-, Russell 1990: 13) occurs in Gaulish personal names like acauco, albeauca, auaucia, caiaucus, caltaucus, donnaucus, gaiaucus, senaucos, uatiaucus (Delamarre 2007 passim). Celtib. elaukos is analysed as el-au̯o-k-os with syncopated o by Untermann (Beltrán 1996: 117, 136, comparing elauus in Latin inscriptions from Spain); the suffix syntagma -au̯o-k- makes a plausible potential source for -auk. The base could be the well-attested, though etymologically unclear Celtic onomastic element il(l)- (DLG: 189), though the latter appears more commonly as an i-stem il(l)io-/-a (and both other potential attestations in Cisalpine Celtic ila(, ilus are doubtful).
Bibliography
| Beltrán 1996 | Francisco Beltrán (ed.), El tercer bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca) [= Collección Arqueología 19], Zaragoza: 1996. |
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| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
