maeloni

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Attestation:	PV·6.1 (ecomaelonisum) (1)
Language:	Celtic
adapted to:	Latin
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen., dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o, on
Morphemic Analysis:	mai̯l-on-ī or mai̯l-oni
Phonemic Analysis:	/mai̯lonī/ or /mai̯loni/
Meaning:	'of Maelon(i)os' or 'for Maelo'

Commentary

Latinised Celtic personal name, either an on-stem maelo in the dative, or an o-stem maelon(ii̯)os, derived from the latter, in the genitive; the former may be more likely considering the comparanda: a name (Latinised) maelo, also mailo, is particularly common in Lusitania, but the also appears on the continent, e.g. CIL XII p. 839 ad. 3721 maelonis (gen.) at Nîmes, and esp. V 7356 maelonis (gen.) at Casteggio (PV) (see AcS II: 370–372, Delamarre 2007: 122, 124, also for other formations). Holder ibid. (also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 188) connects the names with OIr. máel 'bald, bare' < *mai̯lo- (Matasović 2009: 260, etymology unclear).

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)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.