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START / NODE 1034Gaulishfirst-century BCE onomastic hosts
-rīx
An attested Gaulish second member meaning “king” or “prince,” visible in compound personal names such as Dumnorix and Vercingetorix and inherited from Proto-Celtic *rīx-s.
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Gaulish-rīx
king or prince as the second member of compound personal names
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Proto-Celtic · Proto-Celtic*rīx-sking, nominative singular
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- SOUND CHANGE
- The attested Gaulish spelling -rix represents /-rīxs/ and aligns with reconstructed Proto-Celtic *rīx-s; the written host names do not preserve a macron.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- The inherited king noun functions as a compound-name member; its precise contribution can range beyond one mechanically compositional gloss.
- 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.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Gaulish is attested in ancient onomastic material; Proto-Celtic is reconstructed.
3 CITATIONSCeltic, chapter 9 of The Indo-European Language FamilyCeltic chapter, p. 138: Gaulish onomastic -rix /-rīxs/ in Dumnorix and Vercingetorix Sur la préhistoire des noms gaulois en -rīxp. 123: second member -rīx “roi, prince” in two-member Gaulish personal names De Bello Gallico — Latin edition in the Scaife ViewerDe Bello Gallico 1.18 and 7.4 AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 1033 ↗
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ORIGINAL ↗The digital Latin edition confirms Dumnorix and Vercingetorix as historical host spellings but does not itself analyze their internal etymology.
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