plioiso


Attestation:	CO·15 (]ọịṣ[), CO·16 (]ịṣo), CO·6 (p̣lioiso), CO·72 (plioiso) (4)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	gen. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o, i̯o

Morphemic Analysis:	pli-(-(i)i̯)-oi̯so
Phonemic Analysis:	/bli(i̯)o^i̯so/ or /plī(i̯)o^i̯so/
Meaning:	'of Plios'

Commentary

o- or i̯o-stem personal name in the genitive; also attested in the nominative plios – see there for a discussion of the phonetic form of the base and etymology. The form attests the archaic (arguably Lepontic) genitive morpheme -oi̯so. Cf. Morandi 1999: 183, Uhlich 1999: 293, Motta 2000: 208 f., Eska 1995: 42 f., Eska 2009: 23, Eska & Evans 2009: 37, Villar & Prósper 2005, 175, n. 37. Interpreted as a verb form by Tibiletti Bruno 1969: 999–1016, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 179, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 f., 167, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 107 f., see the critique in Campanile 1969: 211–215 and Gambari & Colonna 1986: 136–138.

Campanile 1969	Enrico Campanile, "Su una Presunta Forma Ottativale Epicorica a Comum", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 9 (1969), 211-215.
Eska & Evans 2009	Joseph F. Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2^nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 28–53.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.
Eska 2009	Joseph Francis Eska, "The emergence of the Celtic languages", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (eds), The Celtic Languages, 2^nd edition, London – New York: Routledge 2009, 22–27.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.