pi

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Attestation: BG·32 (pi) (1)
Status: uncertain
Language: perhaps Celtic
Word Type: prob. proper noun
Semantic Field: prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories: indeterminable

Morphemic Analysis: unknown
Phonemic Analysis: unknown
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name, as suggested by Morandi 2003: 127, no. 4 (also 2004: 713, no. 289). Morandi compares pit twice in the area of Bergamo (but with similar reading problems); cf. also names in biu̯- and bir(r)- as well as pisa, pianu, piami.

Corinna Salomon

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