kiketu

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Attestation:	VB·23 (kiketụ/ṛẹṭalos) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	king-et-ū or kīk-ed-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/kingetū/ or /kīkedū/
Meaning:	'Kiketu' (?)

Commentary

Probably an on-stem personal name in the nominative, though a patronym formed with individualising -ū or -ed- can maybe not be entirely excluded (see the inscription page).

Though the attested form is orthographically ambiguous, the most straight-forward analysis of the name is a hypocorism of a name in king-et- 'attacker, warrior, footsoldier' as in, e.g., CIL XIII 3707 cingetius, Caesar BG V.22.I cingetorix (KGP: 171 f., GPN: 73 f., 177–179, DLG: 116, Delamarre 2007: 216 et passim, Matasović 2009: 200, Stüber 1998: 25, Stüber 2005: 95, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 156, Irslinger 2002: 58). A spanner is thrown in the works by the potential comparandum RIG M-106 cicedu, which appears to be derived from kīk- 'flesh, muscle' (DLG: 116) with the functionally unclear suffix -ed-, which is commonly attested in combination with on-stems. (Cf. also CIL XIII 2836 cicetius, probably a variant of either of the two.) See Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 258 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 167 f., Markey & Mees 2003: 140, Morandi 2004: 564, Villar & Prósper 2005: 286.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
De Bernardo Stempel 1999	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
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.