rio

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Attestation:	TI·16 (rio) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	rii̯-o- or rīg-o- (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/rii̯o/ (?)
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription pages on the uncertain reading.

The form may be an abbreviated personal name with first element rio-. The latter is identified with rīgo- by Rhŷs 1913: 30 (no. 10), who compares Ir. rígbard/rígbardan, but see the morpheme page on the possibility of an alternative etymology rii̯o- 'free'. Cf. riop. See also Salomon 2024: 167.

Corinna Salomon