uasekia

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Attestation:	VB·16 (uasekia) (1)
Language:	Celtic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:	nom. sg. fem.
Stem Class:	i̯ā
Morphemic Analysis:	u̯o-seg-(i)i̯-ā or u̯ass-ek-(i)i̯-ā
Phonemic Analysis:	/u̯aseg(i)i̯ā/ or /u̯as(s)ek(i)i̯ā/
Meaning:	'Uasekia'

Commentary

Two morphological segmentations are possible to analyse the form.
1. Base u̯asso- 'servant' with suffix -ek- (Kretschmer 1905: 103, Lejeune 1971: 65 f., n. 231, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 165). Though u̯asso- is well attested, the suffix is not common and not otherwise attested as a personal name formant in Cisalpine Celtic.
2. Preverb u̯o- > u̯a- (see the morpheme page and cf. kituaretos) and base seg- 'victory'.

The second option, also in Delamarre 2007: 190, seems to us preferable with regard to the comparanda uasego (Lusitania) and repeated uosegus in Germania superior (Delamarre 2007: 190, 204).

See also Rhŷs 1913: 61, Prósper 2002: 344, Villar & Prósper 2005: 260.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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