uosiu(
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| Attestation: | TI·38 (]??i:uosiu[) (1) | ||
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| Status: | probable | ||
| Language: | prob. Celtic | ||
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun | ||
| Semantic Field: | prob. personal name |
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| Grammatical Categories: | indeterminable | ||
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| Morphemic Analysis: | u̯os-(i)i̯-ū or u̯os-(i)i̯-ūi̯ (?) | ||
| Phonemic Analysis: | /u̯os(i)i̯ū/ or /u̯oss(i)i̯ūi̯/ (?) | ||
| Meaning: | '(for) Uosiu' (?) | ||
Commentary
See the inscription page on the reading.
The incomplete sequence is most likely a personal name with base u̯os- and suffix -(i)i̯-; the last preserved letter upsilon could represent the on-stem nominative -ū or, typologically more likely, the beginning of the o-stem dative ending -ūi̯.
