leukururitu
| Attestation: | NO·28 (akluśamo/ụalos/leukur/uritu) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| 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
