kelaunikui
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Celtiberian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Theories include:
- Proto-Indo-European *kel-nḤ-mno- (“something covered, protected”) + *-iko-[1]
- from ke- (unknown prefix) + launi (“wife”) + -iko[2]
- a compound kel-aun-ĭk-o-[3]
- from a toponym ending in -au[4]
Word
[edit]kelaunikui
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- Tornijo del Campo inscription:
- kelaunikui terkininei eskenim tures launi olzui olkai/obakai eskenim tures Useizunos kotizonei
- (according to Villar and Prósper): a document has been emitted for the entire area with buildings in the region […] the wife
- kelaunikui terkininei eskenim tures launi olzui olkai/obakai eskenim tures Useizunos kotizonei
- Tornijo del Campo inscription:
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- D. Vicente Redón, B. Ezquerra Lebrón, El bronce celtibérico de Torrijo del Campo (Teruel) in 1997, Francisco Villar, Francisco Beltrán, Pueblos, lengua y escrituras en la Hispania Prerromana, University of Salamanca.
- D. Stifter, A Contribution to Celtiberian Etymology in 1999, Die Sprache, volume 41.
- F. Rubio Orecilla, Las formaciones secundarias en -ko- del celtibérico in 2001, Francisco Villar, María Pilar Fernández Álvarez, Religión, lengua y cultura prerromanas de Hispania, University of Salamanca.
- Blanca María Prósper, Reflections on Celtiberian Morphology: The oilaun-Word-Family and Holodynamic -mon-Stems in 2002, Studia Indogermanica Lodziensia, volume 4, University of Łódź.
- Francisco Villar, Blanca M. Prósper (2005) Vascos, celtas y indoeuropeos: genes y lenguas (in Celtiberian), University of Salamanca