kopiu

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Attestation:	CO·66 (kopiụ) (1)
Status:	probable
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	kob-(i)i̯-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/kob(i)i̯ū/
Meaning:	'Kopiu'

Commentary

See CO·66 on the reading.

If the reading is correct, the best analysis of the sequence is as a hypocoristic personal name in -on from a compound name with kob(i)i̯o- as first element (cf. uercobius, cobiatia, DLG: 120).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.