tuni

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Attestation:	VB·3.4 (tu??) (1)
Status:	uncertain
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	unclear
Morphemic Analysis:	dūn- or dunn- (?)
Phonemic Analysis:	/d/tu/ūn(n)/° (?)
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription page on the uncertain reading.

If correct, tuni may be an abbreviation of a personal name; a genitive is unlikely in the context of attestation. Comparanda include names in dun(n)- (see Delamarre 2007: 91 f.), formed from the base dunn- 'brown' (e.g. CIL V 5618 dunnonis [gen., Castelseprio – the name of the father of a surica]) or dūn- 'fort', as well as rarer tun(n)-, e.g. CIL V 7311 tunnius (Susa). Cf. tunal.

See also Rhŷs 1913: 62, no. 20 (b), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 164, Lejeune 1987: 497, n. 19, Morandi 2004: 552.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.