retalos

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Attestation:	VB·23 (kiketụ/ṛẹṭalos) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	ret-al-os or rēd-al-os
Phonemic Analysis:	/re/ēt/dalos/
Meaning:	'son of Retos' (?)

Commentary

Probably a patronym in -al-, though it can maybe not be entirely excluded that the name is a personal name formed with onomastic -al- (see the inscription page). The base may be ret- 'run, race' or rēd- 'ride, drive'; monothematic names or formations with -al- are attested for neither. Unlikely, but possible in principle is a connection with the ethnonym raeti (or rather its hypothetical vernacular base; cf. CIL V 5408). See Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: 259 f., Morandi 2004: 564.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)