Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Secundus Vercai fil(ius)

Name (citation form)Vercaius
SourceIII 5641, ILLPRON 1154
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialstone
Date and origin
Location (modern)Admont
Location (ancient)
CommunityAdmont
District, regionLiezen
Population group
Date2. c. AD
Source of dateCIL
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderm.
Name typeIN
Use of nameIN as patronym
Word formationadverbial prefix compound (prefix + noun)
Prefix*uer- 'over-, sur-, up'
NPC 236, DLG2: 314, GPN 279f.
First element*ca(g)io- 'enclosure'
DLG2: 97, NPC 214
Second element
Suffixo
Stem classo
Casegen. sg.
Semantic fieldObj? / Comm
Other
Relations(S) Secundus
General notessecond element of compound: *cagio- > *caio- "avec affaiblissement du g intervocalique en gaulois tardif" (DLG2: 97); etymology: PIE *kagh- (Lat. caulae, OHG hag, OE haga, ON hagi). Different morphological segmentation in Lochner 179: *uerc- (which he connects to PIE *u̯erg̑- 'to do, make' (cf. Goth. waúrkjan, OHG wirken, wurken) + suffix *-aio-.
Other attestationsVe[r]caius NOR 1 (CIL III 5444), Vercaius DAL 0;1 (CIL III 9796) NOR 10 (CIL III 5073, 5084, 5112, 5422, 5440, 5641, 14366,6, Egger 24, Leber 35, 273), [Ver?]caius NOR 1 (Leber 172).
Secondary literatureLochner 179, NPC 195, 214, 236, DLG2: 97, 314, GPN 279f., AlNor 238