leukururitu

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Attestation:	NO·28 (akluśamo/ụalos/leukur/uritu) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	leu̯k-ur-u-u̯rīt-ū or leu̯k-ur-o-u̯rīt-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/leu̯kuruu̯rītū/ (?)
Meaning:	'Leukururitu'

Commentary

Compound personal name. Gambari 2007: 258 f. segments leu̯kuru-rit-ū (Gambari 2011: 27 leukuroritō), comparing the Latinised personal name leucuro (VB·21), which most probably contains the base leu̯ko- 'bright'; the two forms share an apparent r-suffix (adjectival -ro-?), whose function is unclear, as is the motivation of /u/ between base and putative suffix (assimilation?). While the comparison of the first element is doubtlessly apt, we prefer a segmentation leu̯kuru-u̯rīt-ū '?-found', which puts the morpheme border at the line break (cf. akluśamoualos); upsilon probably denotes both the composition vowel and the second element's initial glide. The composition vowel may thus be -u-, or *-o- assimilated to the glide.

David Stifter, Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Gambari 2007	Filippo M. Gambari, "Dormelletto. I documenti epigrafici in celtico cisalpino", Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte 22 (2007), 256–259.
Gambari 2011	Filippo Maria Gambari, "Le pietre dei signori del fiume: il cippo iscritto e le stele del primo periodo della cultura di Golasecca", in: Filippo Maria Gambari, Raffaella Cerri (eds), L'alba della città. Le prime necropoli del centro protourbano di Castelletto Ticino, Novara: 2011, 19–32.