sunalei
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Attestation: | TI·37 (sunaḷei : makọ[) (1) |
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| Language: | perhaps Lepontic |
| Word Type: | proper noun |
| Semantic Field: | personal name |
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| Case: | dat. |
| Number: | sg. |
| Gender: | animate |
| Stem Class: | i, cons. stem |
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| Morphemic Analysis: | sun-alei̯ Attention, needs to be checked! |
| Phonemic Analysis: | sunalei̯ |
| Meaning: | "for the son of Sun(is)?" |
Commentary
sun(n)-ali-, not as expected -alo- (patronymic suffix); cf. Sunicius, Sunilena ? (Lejeune 1971: 51, 52 fn. 131, 65 fn. 223, Motta 2000: 206, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139, cf. Delamarre 2007: 175, 233) Ending -al see also ualaunal, tunal.
Bibliography
| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
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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) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
