kuaśoni
| Attestation: | TI·27.1 (kuaśoni:pala:terialui) (1) |
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| Language: | Lepontic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | kuas-oni Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | kuasoni |
| Cognates in: | Lat. Cuasus? |
| Meaning: | "to Kuaśu" |
Commentary
cf. Cuasus (Motta 2000: 199; Morandi 2004: 534, Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1019, fn. 45, Schuermans 1867: nr. 1788. After Motta Schuermans mentions an earlier alternative reading CVXVS). Lacking a modern confirmation of the reading and being somewhat distant and isolated, the comparison is not very strong. (See also Motta 2000: 199), *Cuasso from *kuos (cf. kualui) + -asso (Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1019-1020, fn. 46)
This attested form could have preserved pie */kw/ (see Eska 2006: 232 fn. 7, Eska & Evans 2009: 36)
The ending: 1) -on-i is originally that of the locative, but it is used syncretistically for the dative here and has replaced the older ending -on-ei, cf. also TI·36.3 (]ni : ṃetạlui [), TI·43 (]ọni : kuimitrui : pạḷạ), TI·44 (]ọni : klanalui : p̣ala) vs. atilonei, piuonei, )kionei (Eska & Wallace 2001: 230, 235-238, fn. 26, fn. 27, McCone 1996: 16, 68, Stüber 1998: 14; ei̯ > ī De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 21, Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1016-1019, critique Eska & Wallace 2001: 235-237, fn. 24-26). 2) -ī thematic gen. sg. (cp. Solinas 1997, De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 24, Lejeune 1990: 77, Eska & Wallace 2001: 230).
Bibliography
| De Marinis & Motta 1991 | Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225. |
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| Eska & Evans 2009 | Joseph Francis Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009. |
| Eska & Wallace 2001 | Joseph F. Eska, Rex E. Wallace, "A syncretism in fieri in early Celtic", Indogermanische Forschungen 106 (2001), 229–240. |
| Eska 2006 | Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235. |
