natoris

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Attestation:	NM·8 (natoris) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. animate
Stem Class:	cons. stem
Morphemic Analysis:	nant-o- or nat-o-rīg-s
Phonemic Analysis:	/na(n)torīs/
Meaning:	'Natoris'

Commentary

Compound personal name probably formed with second element rīg- 'king'; for -rīχs ⟨ris⟩ cf. toutoris, ośoris. The first element may be nant- or nat-, each supported by exactly one comparandum. For option 1, cf. CIL XIII 5485 ]nantiorix (Dijon, lost; EDH HD081173, KGP: 247), with a i̯o-stem in the first element. See nanto- on the semantics, lit. 'king of the valley' or, more typically Gaulish, 'king of battle'. For option 2 cf. CIL XIII 8095 uonatorix (Dijon), whose second element is connected by Delamarre GPN: 232 with nat- 'poem'. Differently Schmidt KGP: 248, who assumes that the second element in uonatorix is also nant-, with loss of /n/ before the stop in composition with a preverb (p. 89).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
EDH	Géza Alföldy et al., Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften 1993–2021.