kepi

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Attestation: PV·1 (esopnos kepi) (1)
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. patronymic

Grammatical Categories: gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class: o, i̯o

Morphemic Analysis: kep-ī Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: kepī
Cognates in: Cis. Gaul. Cepō
Meaning: "(son of) Kep(i)os"?

Commentary

cf. Kepos (Delamarre 2007: 64); gen. case in patronymic function (see Lejeune 1971: 52, Evans 1972: 182, Tibiletti Bruno 1973-5: 54, Lejeune 1990: 71) see also De Bernardo Stempel 2005: 190, Lejeune 1971: 50, 63 fn. 203, 70, Tibiletti Bruno 1965b: 570 fn. 51, Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 170-174, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148 (cf. Ceppius, Cepo etc.), Pellegrini 1962-3: ?

Bibliography

De Bernardo Stempel 2005 Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "Indogermanisch und keltischen 'geben': kontinentalkelt. Gabiae, gabi/gabas, keltib. kabizeti, altir. ro-(n)-gab und Zugehöriges", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 185-200.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Evans 1972 D. Ellis Evans, "A comparison of the formation of some Continental and early Insular Celtic personal names", Études Celtiques 13/1 (1972), 171–193.