tati

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Attestation:	TI·56 (tati) (1)
Language:	prob. Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Stem Class:	o, i̯o, ?
Morphemic Analysis:	?(-ii̯)-ī (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/t/da/ā(n)t(t)/d(ii̯)ī/
Meaning:	abbreviation or 'of Tat(i)os'

Commentary

The sequence tati could formally be a personal name tat(ii̯)os in the genitive -ī or an abbreviation (see the inscription page). The base is difficult to identify due to the many reading options (t/dā̆(n)t(t)/d-). The best candidates are dā̆t- (or, with hypocoristic gemination, datt-) as in the potter's names datos and datusio, CIL XII 2770 dattouir (Laudun), and tā̆t- (tatt-) as in RIG M-278 tatinos (coin legend of the Ruteni), CIL XIII 8221 taticenus (Köln), XIII 11978 taticoni (Urmitz), III 5350 tatucae (Kaindorf), RIU V 1208 tatuni[s] (Dunaujvaros), see Delamarre 2007: 219, 233 f. et passim. tadius, tadia are attested in a British inscription (RIB 369, Isca Silurum); a few forms in tant- are listed by Holder AcS II: 1723. All the above bases are etymologically obscure, though tat- is plausibly connected to the Lallwort for 'father' (OIr. tata, W tad, see AcS ii: 1751) by Meid 2005: 291 f. Theoretically, the name could of course also be non-Celtic and borrowed from a substrate language. Cf. Salomon 2024c: 3–5, Salomon 2024: 166.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

AcS	Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907.
CIL	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements)
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.