Name details
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name (attested) | Gracco [---] Atobitis |
| Name (citation form) | [---]atobitis* ? |
| Source | III 5087, ILLPRON 372 |
| Source type | epigraphic |
| Type of inscription | sepulcral |
| Material | stone |
| Date and origin | |
| Location (modern) | Preims |
| Location (ancient) | Virunum |
| Community | Wolfsberg |
| District, region | Wolfsberg |
| Population group | — |
| Date | — |
| Source of date | — |
| Linguistic notes | |
| Language | prob. Celtic |
| Gender | m. |
| Name type | IN |
| Use of name | IN as patronym |
| Word formation | compound, not further determinable |
| Prefix | *ate-, *ati-, *at- 're-, very' ? / *[---?]ato- ? '?' ? / DLG2: 57, KGP 136, NPC 211, GPN 142 |
| First element | *bitu- 'world' KGP 149f., DLG2: 76, 77 (biuo- > bio-), NPC 213 |
| Second element | — |
| Suffix | i KGP 95f. |
| Stem class | i |
| Case | gen. sg. |
| Semantic field | Comm? |
| Other | |
| Relations | — |
| General notes | The second compound member looks Celtic and is reminiscent of the etymon *bitu- 'world'; in composition, the concomitant change into the i-stem-inflection is of PIE heritage (cf. KGP 95f. with further references). The guesses concerning the potential lacuna (the inscription goes: ... GRACCO [---] / ATOBITIS ...) at the beginning of the first compound member [---]ato-, e.g. (C)ato-°, (Com)ato-, (Gn)ato-°, (M)ato-°, (R)ato-°-, are all very hypothetical, because *bitu- as second compound member is rare (KGP 150 listes Daribitus and Solibites (gen.) only), and the right order is Bitugnatus (KGP 218) and not †Gnato-bitus for instance. Thus, the first compound member remains unclear unless the name´s beginning is not broken at all. Then, Ato-° could theoretically reflect the prefix *ate- with rounding of the vowel e > o in front of the subsequent labial stop of -bitis. Note that -e- remained unchanged in Atebonius (RSW 2: 12), however. |
| Other attestations | ? |
| Secondary literature | DLG2: 57, 76 (biuo- > bio-), KGP 136, 149f., NPC 211, 213, GPN 142 |