subocau

Umbrian

Alternative forms

  • subocauu

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *sub-wok-āō, a denominative verb to *wōks, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs. De Vaan suggests a Proto-Italic form *sub-wok-āje-.

The linguist Giacomo Devoto doubts the connection with Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs, as he argues that *kʷ should have produced -p- in Umbrian.

Verb

subocau (1st person singular present active indicative) (late Iguvine)

  1. to invoke
    • Iguvine Tablets VIb.6:
      tio subocau suboco
      • Translation by James Wilson Poultney
        Thee, I invoke thee as the one invoked

Usage notes

It is also interpreted as a 1st-person singular perfect active indicative form. Poultney rejects this analysis, arguing that—if a perfect form—it must be interpreted as -v- perfect, a type of perfect stem that is not well-attested in the Osco-Umbrian languages.

References

  • Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium‎[1], Baltimore: American Philological Association
  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 691-692
  • James W. Poultney (1955) “Two Problems in the Iguvine Tables”, in The American Journal of Philology‎[2], volume 76, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 77–82
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