kuimpalui
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Attestation: | TI·43 (]ọni:kuimpaḷui:pạḷạ) (1) |
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Status: | uncertain |
Language: | perhaps Celtic |
Word Type: | proper noun |
Semantic Field: | patronymic |
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Grammatical Categories: | dat. sg. masc. |
Stem Class: | o |
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Morphemic Analysis: | kuimp-al-ūi̯ |
Phonemic Analysis: | /?????alūi̯/ |
Meaning: | 'for the son of Kuimpos' |
Commentary
See the inscription page on the reading.
Patronym derived with suffix -al- in the dative. If the underlying personal name kuimpos* is Celtic, it may have either preserved /ku̯/ or rare /gu̯/ < PIE *gu̯h. Alternatively, one might consider ko(m)-u̯impos* with second element u̯imp- 'pretty' (s. DLG: 320), following the method of Delamarre 2007: 78, who analyses the anlaut of names in kua° as ko(m)-u̯at- (CIL XIII 5510 cuatasius [Dijon], cuatilus [Heiligenberg], with u̯ati- 'prophecy'), cf. kuaśoni.
Bibliography
CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
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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. |