koliu

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Attestation:	CO·66 (kopiụ), VR·19 (koliuetu) (2)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	koli̯-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/?ū/
Meaning:	'Koliu'

Commentary

Reading of both possible attestations uncertain, see CO·66 and VR·19.

If not a chimera, the form is most likely a hypocoristic masculine on-stem personal name; no good etymology can be offered for the base/first element of the compound name – maybe kollīu̯- = affirmative or equative kom- + *līu̯o- 'colour, glow'? A handful of names in col- (colia, colianus (Liguria), collo, collus) are listed in Delamarre 2007: 217 et passim. Cf. koliuetu.

David Stifter, Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.