siteś
| Attestation: | CO·48 (uvamokozis:plialeθu:uvltiauiopos:ariuonepos:siteś:tetu) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | noun |
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| Grammatical Categories: | acc. pl. |
| Stem Class: | root noun |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | sīd-ents |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /sīdents/ (?) |
| Meaning: | 'seats' uel sim. |
Commentary
Recognised as an accusative plural object and compared (for the ending) with artuaś at Todi and (for the base) with Lat. sēdēs 'seats' already by Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: 303–305. Prosdocimi 1967: 214 f. further compared the OIr. s-stem síd 'fairy mound', suggesting that this specific meaning could indicate that of the Lepontic form in the inscription ("sede divina"), but took the form for a singular (with san denoting */s/). Lejeune 1971: 104 f. analyses the form as the acc.pl. of a root noun *sēdn̥s, taking *n̥ > en rather than an as a feature of Lepontic (106–110, see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages). Lejeune's analysis is supported by Eska 1998b: 120, n. 17, and Uhlich 1999: 293–298, who – having discussed the matter by letter – assume that the ending had epenthetic /t/ (san = [ts] or [ts], with /n/ weakened, lost or not spelled before /t/, cf. Lejeune's analysis of artuaś). Uhlich explains /e/ instead of /a/ through analogy, but concludes that epenthetic /t/ is a distinguishing feature of Lepontic; see further Griffith 2006: 52–54, 61–63.
See also Campanile 1968: 208, 212, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 142, 188, Schmidt 1980: 184, n. 35, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 180, Schmidt 1983: 75, Prosdocimi 1986: 245, Solinas 1995: 344 f., Tremblay 1996: 60, n. 101, Eska 1998c: 67, Motta 2000: 197, Markey & Mees 2003: 154–157, NIL: 590–593 with n. 1, Uhlich 2007: 382–384, Matasović 2009: 326, Stifter 2010: 370, 372.
Bibliography
| Campanile 1968 | Enrico Campanile, "Su due interpretazioni della iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207–213. |
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| Eska 1998b | Joseph Francis Eska, "Tau Gallicum", Studia Celtica 32 (1998), 115-127. |
| Eska 1998c | Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80. |
