-al

Type:	derivational
Meaning:	"(son/daughter) of"
Function:	derivation of the patronymic from the father's name
Language:	Lepontic, Raetic
Phonemic Analysis:	/al/ (?)
Attestation:	)nialui, kaialoiso, klanalui, kualui, maeśilalui, mationalai, mationalui, metalui, piuotialui, retalos, sunalei, tekialui, telialui, terialui, tunal, ualaunal, uerkalai

Commentary

Markey & Mees 2003: 143 ("mirrors patronymic use of the Etruscan l-genitive"), Pellegrini 1983: 34 ("prae-IE ligurian element"), Thurneysen 1933: 6-7, Pedersen 1920-1 (Lep. PN on -alos)

Markey & Mees 2003	Thomas L. Markey, Bernard Mees, "Prestino, patrimony and the Plinys", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 53 (2003), 116-167.
Pedersen 1920-1	Holger Pedersen, "The Lepontian Personal Names in "-alos"", Philologica 1 (1920-1921), 38 ff..
Pellegrini 1983	Giovan Battista Pellegrini, "Osservazioni lessicali sulle lingue preromane dell'Italia Superiore", in: Edoardo Vineis (Ed.), Le Lingue Indoeuropee di Frammentaria Attestazione. Atti del Convegno della Società Italiana di Glottologia e della Indogermanische Gesellschaft ; Udine, 22 - 24 settembre 1981, Pisa: Giardini 1983, 29-64.
Thurneysen 1933	Eduard Rudolf Thurneysen, "Italisches. Die etruskischen Räter.", Glotta 21 (1933), 1-7.