suboco

Umbrian

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sub-wok-(o-), from Proto-Italic *wōks, from Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs.

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

Noun

suboco n (accusative) (late Iguvine)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: invocation, the one invoked
    • Iguvine Tablets VIb.6:
      tio subocau suboco
      • Translation by James Wilson Poultney
        Thee, I invoke thee as the one invoked

Usage notes

  • Buck renders the term as plural whereas Poultney renders the term as singular.
  • It has also been interpreted as a first-person singular form, although this interpretation is rejected by Buck due to semantic difficulties

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, page 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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