katu

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Attestation:	TI·55 (katu) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	kat-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/kat(t)ū/
Meaning:	'Katu'

Commentary

on-stem personal name in the nominative, most probably a hypocoristic formed from a compound name with first element katu- 'battle, fight' (i.e. katū, or kattū with hypocoristic gemination), though other readings (k/gā̆(n)t(t)/d-) are theoretically possible – cf. e.g. kanto/i- in CIL XIII 4547 cantognati (Neufgrange), RIG M-291 cantorix (coin legend), for which multiple etymologies are feasible (see DLG: 103–105 kanti- 'together with', kanto- 'hundred', kantos 'circle [of the wheel], rim'). Cf. Salomon 2024c: 2, Salomon 2024: 162 f.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.