kīk-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	'flesh, muscle'
Language:	Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/kīk/-
From Proto-Celtic:	*kīkV- 'flesh, muscle'
Attestation:	kiketu

Commentary

Lexically in OIr. cích 'breast', MW cic, OBret. cic 'flesh', OCo. kig gl. caro < kīkV- without clear PIE connections (see Matasović 2009: 204, Zair 2012: 114 f., LEIA: C-96). Gaulish personal names which may contain the base are e.g. the epithets of Mars cicollus and cicinus, and a number of personal names, see DLG: 116, KGP: 117, Delamarre 2007: 65.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.