anteśilu
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | TI·25 (anteśilu) (1) |
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| Language: | Celtic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Case: | nom. |
| Number: | sg. |
| Gender: | masc. |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | an(d)-tets-il-ū or an-tets-il-ū Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | antetsilū Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Cognates: | Antessus |
| Meaning: | "Anteśilu" |
Commentary
Interpretation:
- < *an(de)- tetsi- / *ande-tessi-il(l)o (Lejeune 1971: 54, 381 fn. 68, fn. 69, Motta 2000: 215, Tibiletti Bruno 1965d, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159-160, cp. Uhlich 2007: 390-394, DLG: 45-46, 294-295, Stüber 1998: 108, Delamarre 2007: 23, 234).
ande- like in Ogam ANDAGELLI, Gaul. Andecombogius, Andecamulos, Andegenus (Motta 2000: 215, CIIC 433, Whatmough 1970: 136, 163, 177, Holder 1896-1907: I 139, KGP: 126, GPN: 136-138); for the variant ando- see anokopokios, Andolatius (Motta 2000: 215, Whatmough 1970: 83; for Celt. names on tess(i)- see Holder 1896-1907: II 1801, KGP: 278). - < *and(e)-te(φ)sti- < *tepsti- meaning "heat" (Stifter 2010: 370, DLG: 294f).
- < *an-tets- with privative an- (Uhlich 2007: 391-394).
Likely cognates with tau Gallicum:
- CIL 12, 5690,9 (Saint-Jean-le-Garguier, Gallia Narbonensis): C Antess|I Patern(i)
- Old British Antedrigus, Anteθri, Anted(θ)rigou etc. (Holder 1,159)
- perhaps CIL 3, 14 (p. 967) (= CIL 3, 6581 = Kayser 106 = D 2543; Alexandria, Aegyptus): Antesstius Numisianus
Notes:
- Cp. Antessus (Morandi 1999: 167, CIL: XII, 5690, 9).
- Unlikely for the Lep. orthography the pre-consonantic <n> is written (cp. piuotialui, kuitos, see Motta 2000: 215, Lejeune 1971: 54 fn. 136, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 160), Uhlich 2007: 390.
- Patronymic/diminutive suffix -il-? see Markey & Mees 2003: 143, Lejeune 1971: 66.
- De Hoz 1990: 322 analyses the word as a gen. sg. o-stem (for critique see Eska 1995: 35). Ending -u is frequent in Lepontic inscriptions (cf. Morandi 1999: 167, fn. 57, Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 84-105, Falkner 1948: 39-54, musu, atlatu (from the Insubrian and Cenoman area)).
Bibliography
| CIIC | Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, Dublin: Stationery Office 1945-1949. (2 volumes) |
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| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
| De Hoz 1990 | Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (Ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315-329. |
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
| Eska 1995 | Joseph Francis Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph Francis Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (Eds.), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33-46. |
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| Tibiletti Bruno 1965d | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Anteśilu", Rendiconti dell' Istituto Lombardo di Scienza e Letteratura 99 (1965), 89-104. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1978 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Ligure Leponzio e Gallico", in: Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (Ed.), Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 6/1], Roma: Biblioteca di Storia Patria 1978, 131-208. |
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