iazus
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | NM·16 (iazus) (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: | u, ? |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | i̯ass-us Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | i̯asus Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Meaning: | "(I)assus" |
Commentary
It could be a nom. sg. of an u-stem. *Iassu- with the element assu- or astu- like in Assu-talo-, Di-assu-māro-, Di-astu-māro- and so on. <z> can be read /ss/ or /*st/ like in -kozis: di-atsu-. di̯- > i̯-, or alternatively the i in this transcription could be read as a punction mark (Lejeune 1971: 130-131, cf. Markey & Mees 2004: 85-86). Therefore see azus. The <z> could be a morphological confusion for <t> (Motta 2000: 208, Marinetti & Prosdocimi 1994: 47-48).
Bibliography
| 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) |
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| Marinetti & Prosdocimi 1994 | Anna Marinetti, Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi, "Le Legende Monetali in Alfabeto Leponzio", in: Giovanni Gorini (Ed.), Numismatica e archeologia del celtismo padano. Atti del convegno internazionale; Saint-Vincent 8 - 9 settembre 1989, Aosta: Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Assessorato del Turismo, Sport e Beni Culturali 1994, 23-48. |
| Markey & Mees 2004 | Tom Markey, Bernard Mees, "A Celtic orphan from Castaneda", Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 54 (2004), 54-120. |
| Motta 2000 | Filippo Motta, "La documentazione epigrafica e linguistica", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 181–222. |
