kasios

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Attestation: NM·17 (kasios) (1)
Language: Celtic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

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

Morphemic Analysis: kass-(i)i̯-os
Phonemic Analysis: /kass(i)os/
Meaning: 'Kasios'

Commentary

Personal name formed from the etymologically opaque base kassi-, cf. CIL XII 5686, 194a cassio (workman's signature), V 3541 cassius (Valeggio/Verona), 3551 cassiae, cassio (Montorio/Verona), 5985 cassius (Milano), etc. (AcS I: 282, 832 f., Delamarre 2007: 59). Cf. Lejeune 1971: 131, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 161, DLG: 109.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
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.