kepi

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Attestation:	PV·1 (esopnos kepi) (1)
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o, i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	kep(-(i)i̯)-ī
Phonemic Analysis:	/kepī/
Meaning:	'(son) of Kep(i)os'

Commentary

Personal name in the genitive in patronymic function, see Pellegrini 1963: 303, Lejeune 1971: 52, Evans 1972: 182, Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 54, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 187, no. 32, RIG II.1: 40, Lejeune 1990: 71, Morandi 2004: 591, no. 101 (unconvincingly against the interpretation as a genitival patronym Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 171–174).

The base of the underlying name kep(ii̯)os could be kep(p)- or keb-, neither clearly Celtic. Potential comparanda for kep- are mentioned by Pellegrini 1963: 305, n. 17, Lejeune 1971: 63, n. 203, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148 and Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 187, no. 32; while they are sparse, CIL V 5569 ceponis (gen.) at Castelnovate and AE 2002: 584 cepasiae (gen.) at Vercelli (Delamarre 2007: 64) attest its existence in the area. Lejeune and Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 170 f. note that toponyms, but no personal names, in ceb- exist in Liguria. See also De Bernardo Stempel 2005: 190.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
De Bernardo Stempel 2005	Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "Indogermanisch und keltischen "geben": kontinentalkelt. Gabiae, gabi/gabas, keltib. gabizeti, 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.