teu

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Attestation:	VA·6 (pelkui:pruiam:teu:karite:iṣ́os:kaṛite:palaṃ) (1)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. masc.
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	dēu̯-ū
Phonemic Analysis:	/dē(u̯)ū/
Meaning:	'Teu'

Commentary

Masculine on-stem personal name in the nominative (Pisani 1953: 272 = 1964: 285). Probably hypocoristic from a compound with first element dēu̯o- 'god' (Lejeune 1971: 24, Delamarre 2007: 181, e.g. deuognata, deuorix, see the morpheme page). Phonetically, the form could be [dēu̯ū] with non-spelling of the glide (Lejeune 1971: 24, 62, Eska 1998c: 71, Eska & Mercado 2005: 164) or, theoretically, [dēū] with loss of the glide (or derived from a compound in which the element was already simplified, e.g. deopantus, cf. DLG: 142 f.).

Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 141 and Motta 2000: 196 also consider a reading tēu̯.

See also Stüber 1998: 108.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.
Eska & Mercado 2005	Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184.
Eska 1998c	Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.