piuon
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | BS·1 (piuon ta) (1) |
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| Language: | Lepontic |
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun |
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| Number: | indeterminable |
| Gender: | animate |
| Stem Class: | on |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | biu̯on(ti)- Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | biu̯on |
| Meaning: | "Biuon"? or abbreviation for a name "Biuon..." |
Commentary
maybe a hypochorism of a compound of bivo- < *gwīwo (biuo- (> bio-) meaning "living (person)") as in Gaul. Biuonia or Biuuō (Lejeune 1971: 62, fn. 186, DLG: 77). It could be an abbreviation of a name like Biuont(ios) (see piuotialui). For further commentaries see piuonei.
Bibliography
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
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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) |
