piuot
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | BG·18 (piuot) (1) |
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| Language: | prob. Cisalpine Gaulish |
| Word Type: | prob. proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Number: | indeterminable |
| Gender: | indeterminable |
| Stem Class: | ? |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | biu̯ont(i)- Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | biu̯ont |
| Meaning: | "Biuont"? or abbreviation for "Biuont(ios)" |
Commentary
< *biu̯ont- (present participle in *-nt-), cp. piuonta (Uhlich 2007: 387); maybe a hypochorism of a compound of bivo- < *gwīwo as in Gaul. Biuonia or Biuuō (Lejeune 1971: 62, fn. 186). It could be an abbreviation of a name like Biuont(ios) (see piuotialui).
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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| Uhlich 2007 | Jürgen Uhlich, "More on the linguistic classification of Lepontic", in: Pierre-Yves Lambert, George-Jean Pinault (eds.), Gaulois et celtique continental [= École pratique des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques. III. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain 39], Genève: Librairie Droz 2007, 373-411. |
