tekialui

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Attestation:	TI·39 (piuonei:tekialui:lala) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	patronymic
Grammatical Categories:	dat. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	tek-(i)i̯-al-ūi̯ (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/tek(k)(i)i̯alūi̯/ or /dek(k)(i)i̯alūi̯/ (?)
Meaning:	'for the son of Tekios'

Commentary

Patronym in -al- from a personal name tekios. Due to the numerous reading options (t/de(n)g/k(k)(i)i̯os*), the etymology is uncertain. Delamarre 2007: 219, 234 et passim and AcS I: 1247–1250, II: 1779 f., 1788 f. have comparanda for all possible variants except those containing a nasal, the only ones with equivalent formation (i̯-suffix) being CIL XIII 2123 deccia (Lyon), XIII 5754 decia (Langres), and the potter's name TECCI (abbr.?) at La Graufesenque (s. Marichal 1988 no. 22, line 9, GPN: 474). Lejeune 1971: 48, 65, n. 224, who rightly excludes a connection with the Latin gentilicium decius, compares from the area of Brescia CIL V 4880 deicae (dat., Tremosine), V 4209 deico (Botticino), and points out the Ligurian ethnonym deciates (s. De Hoz 2005: 178, n. 41, 181). Options for the etymology include DLG: 137 dec- 'ten' and, semantically attractive, teku- 'pretty' (cf. GPN: 475, n. 3). Cf. also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136, Rix 1995: 737, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 447, n. 5, Sims-Williams 2003: 52, 172, Villar & Prósper 2005: 261, Salomon 2024: 151.

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)
De Bernardo Stempel 1999	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
De Hoz 2005	Javier de Hoz, "Ptolemy and the linguistic history of the Narbonensis", in: Javier de Hoz, Eugenio R. Luján, Patrick Sims-Williams (eds), New approaches to Celtic place-names in Ptolemy's Geography, Madrid/Zaragoza: 2005, 173–188.
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.