kos(s)-

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Type:	lexical
Meaning:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Phonemic analysis:	/kos(s)/-
Attestation:	χosioiso

Commentary

Names containing an element kos(s)- are attested throughout the Gaulish area, see AcS I: 1136–1140, Evans 1967: 334, Meid 2005: 265, Delamarre 2007: 218. As observed by Evans and Meid, it is not certain that the base is etymologically Celtic. Delamarre assumes that a base with a tau gallicum auslaut kosti/u- > kossi/u- > kosi/u-, but proposes no etymology.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.