koma

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Attestation:	TI·2 (koma) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	kom-ā (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/komā/ or /kommā/
Meaning:	'Koma'

Commentary

Reading uncertain, see the inscription page.

If correct, probably an ā-stem personal name. Short names with a first element kom(m)- are known in Transalpine Gaul, cf. RIG M-113 coma, commos, commus, como, comio, com(m)ios, commius (Delamarre 2007: 70, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143). The etymology of the names is uncertain (see GPN: 335 f.), possibly hypocoristics from names with the preverb kom-. Cf. komoneos.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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