Addenda ad Linguistica XXVIII

Abstract

At the end of my comments to Frau's Dizionario (p. 146) I remarked that there is practically nothing Celtic in the sources to the stems of the names there cited in -ic( i)u-. It was an oversight on my part that i neglected to add at the end of that paragraph what is probably obvious to any reader: The bases of the stems in these praedial names, with the unsurprising exception of those in B-, could easily be good and well known Latin; this does not of course mean that their possessors were native Romans. Their society was however strongly acculturated, or else it was characterized by such pretentions. The suffix may well properly have been *-k(i)o- added to stems in -i-, which might also be thematized.