kuaśoni

From Lexicon Leponticum
Jump to navigationJump to search

Attestation: TI·27.1 (kuaśoni:pala:terialui) (1)
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class: on

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) 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.
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.