Name details

Summary
Name (attested)

Vercillae Troucilli f(iliae)

Name (citation form)Vercilla
SourceIII 5037, ILLPRON 90
Source typeepigraphic
Type of inscriptionsepulcral
Materialmarble
Date and origin
Location (modern)Friesach
Location (ancient)Virunum
CommunityFriesach
District, regionSt. Veit an der Glan
Population group
Date
Source of date
Linguistic notes
LanguageCeltic
Genderf.
Name type(place name as?) IN
Use of name
Word formationprepositional govering compound (intensifying prefix + (verbal) noun)
Prefix*uer- 'over-, sur-, up'
NPC 236, DLG2: 314, GPN 279f., KGP 279
First element*cello- 'bobbin, hammer' or *cel- 'to hide' ?
NPC 216, DLG2: 113, KGP 179
Second element
Suffixa
Kajanto 105
Stem classa
Casedat. sg.
Semantic fieldChar / Comb
Other
Relations(F) Troucillus, (H) Subitio, (FiL) Surus, (S) Castio
General notesRegional context, mostly confined to Noricum. KGP 291 proposes a different morphological segmentation: *uerc- + hypocoristic suffix -illa- or similar, cf. "viele[ ] Namen des Stammes verc- (...) cf. auch den ON Vercellae usw.".
Other attestationsNAR 1 (CIL XII 652) NOR 2 (CIL III 5113, Leber 267), Vercillus NAR 2 (CIL XII 724, 5085), Vercill(a)es NOR 1 (CIL III 5019).
Secondary literatureAlNor 238, Meid 179 (Vercella), NPC 195, 216, 236, DLG2: 113, 314, KGP 179, 279, GPN 279f.