kuaśoni

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Attestation:	TI·27.1 (kuaśoni:pala:telialui) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	kuas-oni
Phonemic Analysis:	/????oni/
Meaning:	'for Kuaśu'

Commentary

on-stem personal name in the dative. Eska 2006: 232, n. 7 (also Eska & Evans 2009: 36) suggests that a subset of the names in ⟨kuV⟩ in Cisalpine Celtic (cf. kualui, kuimpalui), unless they have rare /g^u̯/ < PIE *g^u̯h, could preserve the labiovelar /k^u̯/ before the change to /p/ (considering the late loss of inherited *p as indicated by uvamokozis), which, however, does not generate any convincing etymologies in the present case. Delamarre 2007: 78 analyses the anlaut of names in kua° (CIL XIII 5510 cuatasius [Dijon], cuatilus [Heiligenberg]) as ko(m)-u̯at- (with u̯ati- 'prophecy'); this could be applied also to ku̯aðū*: hypocoristic from a compound ko(m)-u̯at-tV- with dental suffix to form tau gallicum and account for san. A comparison with cuasus as suggested by Motta 2000: 199, Morandi 2004: 534, Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1019, n. 45 (according to Motta, the reading is not entirely certain, cf. Schuermans 1867: no. 1788), which equates san and sigma, is not feasible; neither is the analysis as cuasso from kuos (cf. kualui) plus a suffix -ass- as per Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1019 f., n. 46.

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
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.
Eska 2006	Joseph F. Eska, "The genitive plural desinence in Celtic and dialect geography", Die Sprache 46/2 (2006), 229–235.