aśouni

From Lexicon Leponticum

Attestation:	VB·27 (atekua / aśouni) (1)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. patronymic
Grammatical Categories:
Case:	gen.
Number:	sg.
Gender:	masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	atsoun-ī or adou̯n-ī Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis:	atsounī or adou̯nī Attention, needs to be checked!
Cognates:	Axiounos
Meaning:	of Aśounos

Commentary

If *powno- > *fobno- > *omno-, the U of aśouni could represent the (nasalised) labial fricative (cp. the hesitancy in Old British orthography regarding the representation of this sound).
1) ś < *ksi̯ as in Gaul. Axionus? (Lejeune 1971: 19, 419 fn. 198 Stifter 2010: 371, Uhlich 2007: 384, IEW: 52 (Axona ??), cp. amaśilu) 2) *ad-omno- < *ad-obno-, comp. Oir. Adomnán, but *bn > *u̯n does not occour in esopnos (PV·1) and esopnio (VB·28, Stifter 2010: 372)
See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153, Delamarre 2007: 28, Villar & Prósper 2005: 328, Prósper 2002: 206-208. Gen. case in patronymic function (compare Lejeune 1971: 52, 63 fn. 200, Lejeune 1989: 71)

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
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Lejeune 1971	Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500)
Lejeune 1989	Michel Lejeune, "Notes de linguistique italique. XXXIX Génitifs en -osio et génitifs en -i*", Revue des Études Latines 67 (1989), 63-77.
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