Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Bottia Saxsami fil(ia) Suaducia

Name (citation form)Saxsamus
SourceIII 4864, ILLPRON 122
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Großbuch
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityKlagenfurt
District, regionKlagenfurt-Stadt
Population groupSaxon???
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
Languageprob. Celtic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationsimple
Prefix
First element*sass-, *saxx-, *saxs- '?'
NPC 231, 230 (sag(o))
Second element
Suffixamo
Stem classo
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldOrig / Comb / Obj
Other
Relations(D) Bottia Suaducia, (SiL) Caius Bottius Mercator, (GD) Nemeta,
General notesNPC 231 connects the name etymologically to the element *sag(o)- / *sag-io- 'seeker' e.g. Curmisagios 'beer-seeker' (PIE root *seh2g- (OIr. -saig, Goth. sōkjan, Lat. sāgiō). Other possibilities: Gmc. Or Latin ethnonym *saxon- or derived from Gmc. *sahsa- (OHG OS sahs, ON sax) 'sword, knife' with unparalleled amus-suffix.
Other attestationsLVG 1 (CIL XIII 2881), Saxamus NOR 2 (CIL III 4909, 4966), Saxxamus BEG 1 (CIL XIII 5641) LVG 1 (CIL XIII 2766).
Secondary literatureAlNor 237 (Saxamus), Lochner 142 (Saxius, -a), NPC 162, 230, 231