kut
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Attestation: | CO·1 (kut) (1) | ||
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Status: | uncertain | ||
Language: | perhaps Celtic | ||
Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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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.
Bibliography
AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |