metlainile
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Word type: | proper noun |
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| Case: | pertinentive |
| Number: | singular |
| Gender: | unknown |
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| Morphemic analysis: | metlaini-le |
| Meaning: | 'by Metlaini? (?) |
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| Attestation: | HU-7 (?ẹḳiesiuṭikutanin/metḷainile) (1) |
Commentary
The tentative interpretation of the once-attested form as a personal name in the pertinentive must be considered very uncertain. The text of HU-7 contains an individual name in the pertinentive, but no accompanying patronym in -nu/-na, so that the otherwise opaque metlainile with auslauting -le may qualify as the surname of the usual patronymic formula. Two more forms in -ile which may be interpreted thus are IT-4 χurvile and SZ-14 sletile; cf. also potential surnames in -i in the casus rectus CE-1.1 śeli and SL-2.1 þurti. See Salomon 2018: 41 and Raetic Onomastics. For the base metl- cf. maybe Etruscan meθlum 'city'?
