lokan

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Attestation: PG·1.2 (]eknati:truti?ṇi/]nitu:lokan:koisịs/]utiknos) (1)
Language: Cisalpine Gaulish
Word Type: noun

Grammatical Categories: acc. sg. inanimate
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: log-ān Attention, has to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: logān Attention, has to be checked!
Meaning: "tomb" or "urne, vessel"

Commentary

1) logān < *logh-ā- from *legh- meaning "to be a recumbent figure" (Lejeune 1971: 36-37)
2) < *longa- meaning "tomb" or "urne, vessel" (cp. DLG: 206, Matasović 2009: 224, Uhlich 2007: 387, Eska 2009: 24); ending -n cf. Lejeune 1951: 89, Eska 2000: 199. See also McCone 1993, McCone 1996: 5, 57, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 270, IEW: 659, VKG: 97, II 86.

Bibliography

De Bernardo Stempel 1999 Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
DLG Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.
Eska 2000 Joseph Francis Eska, "Phonology meets syntax in Naintré (Vienne)", Historische Sprachforschung 113 (2000), 199-209.
Eska 2009 Joseph Francis Eska, "The emergence of the Celtic languages", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 22–27.