plai

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Attestation:	TI·14 (plai/p) (1)
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

Most likely an abbreviated personal name (Morandi 1999: 164), though a genitive in -ī cannot be excluded (cf. tati). Cf. CIL V 7832 blaiae (Forum Germanorum), 7349 blaionia (Revelli), V 7845 blaisicius (Busca) (AcS I: 443 f., Delamarre 2007: 43); names in blai(s)- cluster in Liguria and Gallia Narbonensis and appear to belong to a Ligurian stratum (Untermann 2006: 1763, 1767). Cf. also names in plai(s)- attested in Etruscan graffiti from Genova: ET² Li 2.6 plaisaś, Li 0.6 plaiṣ[, Li 0.7 pla (see Colonna 2004: 302, no. 1, 304, no. 14 and 15a, Mees 2024: 204). Cf. maybe pla(.

See also Salomon 2024: 166 f.

Corinna Salomon

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)
Colonna 2004	Giovanni Colonna, "Catalogo delle iscrizioni preromane di Genova", in: Raffaele C. de Marinis, Giuseppina Spadea, I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Milano: Skira 2004, 302–307.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
ET²	Gerhard Meiser, Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, auf Grundlage der Erstausgabe von †Helmut Rix neu bearbeitet in Zusammenarbeit mit Valentina Belfiore und Sindy Kluge. Teil 1: Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indizes, Teil 2: Texte, 2nd, revised edition [= Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 4], Hamburg: Baar 2014.