plioiso

From Lexicon Leponticum

Citation Form:	plios*
Attestation:	CO·15 ([pli]oiṣ[o]), CO·16 ([plio]ịso), CO·6 (]p̣lioiso), CO·72 (plioiso) (4)
Language:	Lepontic
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Grammatical Categories:
Case:	gen.
Number:	sg.
Gender:	masc.
Stem Class:	o
Morphemic Analysis:	pli-o-si̯o (?) pli-oi̯so
Phonemic Analysis:	/plioi̯so/ (?)
Meaning:	"of Plios"

Commentary

plios- is also known from plialeθu:

1. bli-alleto- < *Blios, cf. Gaul. names on Bil(l)- (cf. Lejeune 1971: 59, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 103-104, Motta 2000: 209, Holder 1896-1907: I 418-422, KGP: 148, GPN: 57-58, Lambert 1994: 141) or
2. pli-alo-, cf. Lat. Plinius and Pliamnus (Gambari & Colonna 1986: 135, Morandi 1999: 183).

This form is an attestation of the old gen. sg. form of the o-stems on -oiso < *-osi̯o. This archaism is also attested in χosioiso and kaialoiso (Motta 2000: 208-209, Uhlich 1999: 293, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 107-108, Eska 1995: 42-43, Eska 2009: 23, Eska & Evans 2009: 37, Villar & Prósper 2005, 175, fn. 37).

For a critique of the interpretation as a verbal form see Gambari & Colonna 1986: 136-138 (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 179, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146-147, 167). See also Tibiletti Bruno 1969: 999-1016 and the critique of Campanile 1969: 211-215.

Bibliography

Campanile 1969	Enrico Campanile, "Su una Presunta Forma Ottativale Epicorica a Comum", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 9 (1969), 211-215.
Eska & Evans 2009	Joseph Francis Eska, David Ellis Evans, "Continental Celtic", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009.
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.
Eska 2009	Joseph Francis Eska, "The emergence of the Celtic languages", in: Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Eds.), The Celtic Languages, 2nd edition [= Routledge Language Family Series], London - New York: Routledge 2009, 22-27.
Gambari & Colonna 1986	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il Bicchiere con Iscrizione Arcaica da Castelletto Ticino", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119-164.
GPN	David Ellis Evans, Gaulish Personal Names. A Study of Continental Celtic Formations., Oxford: Clarendon Press 1967.
Holder 1896-1907	Alfred Holder, Alt-Celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896-1907. (3 volumes)
KGP	Karl Horst Schmidt, "Die Komposition in gallischen Personennamen", Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 26 (1957), 33–301.
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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)
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Tibiletti Bruno 1969b	Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Il Mondo Culturale di Comum", Memorie dell'Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere 30/3 (1969), 167-315.
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