triu

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Attestation:	TI·17 (triu) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. animate
Stem Class:	on
Morphemic Analysis:	?-ū (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	'Triu' (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

If alphabetical, the sequence can be interpreted as a personal name in tri- (or possibly dri-), either a hypocorism of a compound name with first element tri- 'three' (e.g. tridallus, though the base is hardly used in personal onomastics) or an abbreviation of a name in triu-, e.g. trivus (cogn.), triumo, triumus (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144, Delamarre 2007: 185).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.