kut

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Attestation:	CO·1 (kut) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

Probably an abbreviation of a personal name, though Pisani 1964: 284 proposed that it stands for *kutu, a name for a vessel borrowed via Etruscan qutun from Gr. κώθων. Cf. maybe (uncertain) VR·5 kutsiu. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 suggests that the sequence could be an abbreviation of the (not evidently Celtic) name cut(t)ius (AcS I: 1208 f.), cf. especially the family name CIL V 6000a cutius in Milano. On names in kut(t)- see also GPN: 465, and Gambari & Colonna 1988: 134, n. 63, on Etruscan comparanda, for which they suggest a potential connection with kott- 'old'. See also Solinas 1995: 342, Morandi 2004: 618.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)