krasanikna

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Attestation:	NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna) (1)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class:	ā
Morphemic Analysis:	krasan-ikn-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	?-/iknā/
Meaning:	'daughter of Krasanos'

Commentary

Patronymic of *krasanos vel sim., ev. related to Grasinius? (Lejeune 1971: 50, 52, 64 n. 208); or related to the Gaul. names Craxanius, Craxius, Craxsantus, etc. (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 150, DLG: 129, Delamarre 2007: 77, 218). The meaning of craxanto-, craxo- may be 'toad', cf. dial. Fr. graisset, OProv. graissan, Catal. grexá 'toad'. See also Evans 1972: 181, Eska & Evans 2009: 35.

David Stifter

Bibliography

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.
Eska & Evans 2009	Joseph F. Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 28–53.
Evans 1972	D. Ellis Evans, "A comparison of the formation of some Continental and early Insular Celtic personal names", Études Celtiques 13/1 (1972), 171–193.