kelaunikui

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Celtiberian

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Etymology

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Unknown. Theories include:

Word

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kelaunikui

  1. 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
    1. (adjective) having a building or buildings[5]
    2. (noun in the dative singular) matrimony[6]
    3. a middle participle related to a Proto-Indo-European stem meaning "covered"[7]

References

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  1. ^ Villar, Prósper, page 202
  2. ^ Redón, Lebrón, page 587
  3. ^ Stifter, page 64
  4. ^ Orecilla, page 582
  5. ^ Villar, Prósper, page 202
  6. ^ Redón, Lebrón, page 587
  7. ^ Prósper, page 73

Further reading

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  • 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