tikou

From Lexicon Leponticum

Attestation:	NM·9 (ana / tikou) (1)
Language:	unknown
Word Type:	proper noun
Semantic Field:	personal name
Morphemic Analysis:	-
Phonemic Analysis:	-
Meaning:	abbreviation of a name "Tikou..."?

Commentary

The sequence tikou in NM·9 could be the part of anatikou or tikouana. Lejeune (1971: 128) presumes two abbreviated legends on this coin: the prominent one tikou referring to an anthroponyme and the one on the side (see ana) possibly referring to an ethnic name. Possibly Tiko-u̯..., tiko- < Tinco- like in Tinco-rigis and Co-tinco-rixs (Lejeune 1971: 128-129, fn. 449, cf. De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 231, Delamarre 2007: 181-182, 234), cf. DLG: 296 (tigou- ?), Schrijver 1995: 64 (Tigurini), Villar & Prósper 2005: 261 (Tigorix)

Bibliography

De Bernardo Stempel 1999	Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen. Stammbildung und Derivation [= Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 15], Tübingen: Niemeyer 1999.
Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.
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)
Schrijver 1995	Peter Schrijver, Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology [= Leiden Studies in Indo-European 5], Amsterdam - Atlanta, GA: Rodopi 1995.
Villar & Prósper 2005	Francisco Villar, Blanca María Prósper, Vascos, Celtas e Indoeuropeos. Genes y lenguas [= Acta salmanticensia, Estudios filológicos 307], Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2005.