raueni

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Attestation:	GR·1 (]ualaunal/]raṇeni) (1)
Status:	dubious
Language:	unknown
Word Type:	proper noun
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown

Commentary

Reading uncertain and possibly incomplete in the beginning, see the inscription page.

If Celtic, the form must be a genitive in -ī (possibly patronymic). A base rau̯- (with suffix -ē̆n-? cf. raneni), however, finds no comparanda in Gaulish onomastics. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 152 (also 1975b: 50 and 1981: 174) analyses raueni as an Etruscan feminine personal name in -i in the nominative, comparing Etruscan names in rav- (rave, ravia, etc.) as well as forms in Latin inscriptions and the toponym Ravenna.

Corinna Salomon