minuku

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Attestation:	TI·42 (minuku:komoneos) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	mīn-uk-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/mīnukū/
Meaning:	'Minuku'

Commentary

Simple on-stem personal name in the nominative, derived from the base mīni- 'gentle' with the hypocoristic suffix -uk-. Though the base's regular stem vowel is i (as in minicius/-a, see Delamarre 2007: 131 f.), a variant with u appears to be current in some areas including norther Italy, see the morpheme pages and cf. specifically CIL XIII 2744 minucia and the cognomen CIL V 6953 minuconius from Torino. See Rhŷs 1913: 17, Danielsson 1909: 23, n. 3, Lejeune 1971: 64, n. 212, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 140, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 161, Motta 2000: 205, Delamarre 2007: 134. See also Salomon 2024: 155.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.