prituli
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| Attestation: | VR·28 (prituli) (1) |
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| Status: | uncertain |
| Language: | Cisalpine Gaulish |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
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| Grammatical Categories: | gen. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | prit-ul(l)-ī |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /pritulī/ or /pritullī/ |
| Meaning: | 'of Pritulos' |
Commentary
Reading of the last letters uncertain, see VR·28.
Masculine PN in the genitive. The comparison with brittula (Aquitania) by Solinas 2016: 377 is attractive, but see prit- on the preferability of prit- < *ku̯ritu- 'form'. Delamarre DLG: 89 points out that b in Gallo-Latin names in brit(t)- may be influenced by the Latinised forms (brittones, britanni etc.) of a Celtic ethnonym from the same base *ku̯rit-, in which case the excellent parallel brittula could reflect an original Celtic pritula. In any case, an influence of these Latin forms can be discounted for Cisalpine Celtic prituli (Marchesini & Stifter 2018: 148), for which we can assume underlying p. The suffix is diminutive -ul(l)-.
Bibliography
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
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