sapsutai

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Attestation: VB·3.1 (§latumarui:sapsutai:pe:uinom:natom) (1)
Language: Lepontic
Word Type: proper noun
Semantic Field: personal name

Grammatical Categories: dat. sg. fem.
Stem Class: ā

Morphemic Analysis: sapsut-āi̯ Attention, needs to be checked!
Phonemic Analysis: sapsutā
Meaning: "to Sapsuta"

Commentary

1) *sap-so-uto- or *sab-so-uto- 2) *saps-uto-, in this case the root would not be Celtic because of *ps > ks as in uxamo-, uxello- (Lejeune 1971: 51, 64 fn. 219, 70 fn. 239, Delamarre 2007: 160; for phonetic matters cp. Eska 1998c: 71-72); cf. Sapsa (Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 188)

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
Eska 1998c Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.