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NODE / 1034attestedGaulish

-rīx

TRANSLITERATION -rīxPRONUNCIATION /-rīxs/

king or prince as the second member of compound personal names

DATE
first-century BCE onomastic hosts
SENSE
king onomastic element
FAMILY
Indo-European / Celtic · Continental Celtic
CANONICAL KEY
node:83:rix:attested:sense:king-onomastic-element

The numeric interval locates the reviewed Dumnorix and Vercingetorix host evidence, not the whole life of Gaulish. The leading hyphen marks second-member position, the macron marks vowel length, and the source prints the surviving spelling -rix with phonemic /-rīxs/; no autonomous token is claimed.

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Proto-Celtic · Proto-Celtic · king nominative

*rīx-s

king, nominative singular

SOUND
The attested Gaulish spelling -rix represents /-rīxs/ and aligns with reconstructed Proto-Celtic *rīx-s; the written host names do not preserve a macron.
MEANING
The inherited king noun functions as a compound-name member; its precise contribution can range beyond one mechanically compositional gloss.
CHRONOLOGY
Gaulish is attested in ancient onomastic material; Proto-Celtic is reconstructed.
SCHOLAR
Anders Richardt Jørgensen · Tristano Bolelli · Enrico Campanile
CONFIDENCE
established — The ancestry and king or prince value are established, while the semantic force in every individual name is not.
Celtic, chapter 9 of The Indo-European Language FamilysupportsCeltic chapter, p. 138: Gaulish onomastic -rix /-rīxs/ in Dumnorix and Vercingetorix

Publishes the attested onomastic element, its pronunciation, host names, king gloss, and Proto-Celtic parent.

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Sur la préhistoire des noms gaulois en -rīxsupportsp. 123: second member -rīx “roi, prince” in two-member Gaulish personal names

Independently identifies -rīx as the second member of compound names and surveys variation in its function.

ORIGINAL ↗
De Bello Gallico — Latin edition in the Scaife ViewercontextDe Bello Gallico 1.18 and 7.4

The digital Latin edition confirms Dumnorix and Vercingetorix as historical host spellings but does not itself analyze their internal etymology.

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01-rīx-rīx · established