matopokios

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Attestation:	NO·20 (]?ọ[/]ṭọ[]ịkṇọṣ/ṃatopokios/sola/nimoniknạ) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	i̯o
Morphemic Analysis:	mat-o-bog-(i)i̯-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/ma/ātobog(i)i̯os/
Meaning:	'Matopokios'

Commentary

Compound personal name in the nominative. The second element is well-attested -bog(i)i̯os 'breaker'; the first element is most likely to be matu- 'bear' with the stem vowel replaced by -o- as per Gambari 1991: 230. mati-/matu- 'good' and mantī- 'amount' are theoretically possible, but less plausible semantically; the latter is also not attested in compounds, and the thematisation would be harder to explain.

See also Motta 1995: 130, Solinas 1995: 373, Morandi 2004: 584.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Gambari 1991	Filippo M. Gambari, "La stele di Cureggio: una nuova iscrizione epicorica preromana dal Novarese", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 227–237.