kiketu

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Attestation:	VB·23 (kiketu/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:	/ki(n)getū/ or /kīkedū/
Meaning:	'Kiketu'

Commentary

1) cīco- "flesh", cf. CICEDV; 2) cingo- "walk", cf. Cingetius, Cingetorix (> "warrior") (cf. Markey & Mees 2003: 140, Villar & Prósper 2005: 286, RIG: M-106, Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: 258-259, fn. 25, CIL: XIII 3707, KGP: 171, GPN: 73-74, 177-179, DLG: 116, Delamarre 2007: 64, 65, 216, Matasović 2009: 200, 204?, McCone 1996: 55, Schrijver 1995: 71, Stüber 1998: 25, Stüber 2005: 95, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 156, IEW: 439, CCCG: 175, VKG: 37, II 2, II 101); -ēto-/-ēdo-, cf. Cicetius, Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: 258 (and other comparisons), CIL: XIII 2836), cognomen? (cp. Markey & Mees 2003: 140, plialeθu, seχeθu, oletu)

Bibliography

CCCG	Henry Lewis, Holger Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition with the supplement of 1961 by Henry Lewis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 [reprint of 1974].
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.