takos
| Attestation: | BS·5 (takos), NO·21.2 (takoṣ:toutas:p̣ụ[/]ṇ?ḳ??tesaso:poikaṇị) (2) |
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| Language: | Cisalpine Gaulish |
| Word Type: | noun |
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| Grammatical Categories: | nom. sg. masc. |
| Stem Class: | o |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | tank-os or dag-os |
| Phonemic Analysis: | /tankos/ or /dagos/ |
| Meaning: | 1) 'giudice, decree', 2) 'peace' or 3) 'good' |
Commentary
1) NO·21.2 (takoṣ : toutas : p̣ụ[ / ]ṇ?ḳ??tesaso : poikaṇị) tank-os < *tangos meaning "decree" or "giudice" (cp. Lejeune 1971: 40, fn. 94, fn. 95, Uhlich 2007: 386-387, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 191, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 105);
2) BS·5 (takos) name tanko- "peace" or dago- "good" (Uhlich 2007: 387, Motta 1992: 314-315, DLG: 289, 134, Delamarre 2007: 233, 218, GPN: 261, 188); altern. tagos "commander, chief, city official" (Markey & Mees 2003: 131, Delamarre 2007: 233, DLG: 431).
For phonology discussion see Uhlich 2007: 388, fn. 33; see also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 187, Prósper 2002: 164 fn. 91, Prósper 2007: 84, cf. Tanco-rix Sims-Williams 2003: 172, Matasović 2009: 369, IEW: 1068, Dago-: Schrijver 1995: 58, 311, CCCG: 2, 29, VKG: 35, 39, Stüber 2005: 73, 84
Bibliography
| CCCG | Henry Lewis, Holger Pedersen, A Concise Comparative Celtic Grammar, 3rd edition with the supplement of 1961 by Henry Lewis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989 [reprint of 1974]. |
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| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
