Matronae Caimineae

The Matronae Caimineae are matrons that are only attested by an inscription on a lost votive stone from Euskirchen from the Roman Empire , probably from the core time of the Rhenish matron worship of the 2nd to 3rd century.

"Matronis Caimineais"

The votive stone was found in Euskirchen in 1663, along with two other votive stones that were donated to the matrons Ratheiheis and Graticheis . All three stones were lost after they were found. Hermann Crombach recorded the find in his "History of the City of Cologne and the Surrounding Area".

Gutenbrunner interprets the epithet as a derivation from a place name, due to the traditional circumstances he considers a Germanic or Celtic assignment to be uncertainly indefinite. Günter Neumann uses the -in- element to place the name in a larger group of matronian names that have this. He also interprets the name as a derivation of a place or place name and adds it to * χaimīn- = "home, settlement" and the initial C as ch or h initial sound . With Gutenbrunner and Neumann, Theo Vennemann assumes a place name as an initial form, but differs from the hydronic root and compares it with the name of the city of Kamen .

See also

• List of matron names

literature

• Wilhelm Brambach : Corpus inscriptionum Rhenanarum. Friderichs, Elberfeld 1867, No. 561-563, p. 126.
• Siegfried Gutenbrunner : The Germanic god names of the ancient inscriptions. Max Niemeyer, Halle / S. 1936, p. 188.
• Günter Neumann : Germanic goddesses in Latin texts . In: Namenkundliche Informations 83/84 (2003), pp. 41–54 = Astrid van Nahl, Heiko Hettrich (Eds.): Günter Neumann: Name studies for Old Germanic (= supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Vol. 59). de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020100-0 , pp. 253-289; here 229, 231 ( fee-based Germanic antiquity online at de Gruyter ).
• Rudolf Simek : Lexicon of Germanic Mythology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 368). 3rd, completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-36803-X , pp. 66, 266-271.
• Theo Vennemann : Morphology of the Lower Rhine matron names . In: Edith Marold , Christiane Zimmermann (Hrsg.): Nordwestgermanisch (=  supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde ). tape 13 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-014818-3 , pp. 272-291; here 296 ( charge Germanic archeology online by de Gruyter).

Remarks

1. ↑ CIL 13, 7969
2. ↑ CIL 13, 7972
3. ↑ CIL 13, 7971
4. ↑ Ahinehae , Anesaminehae , Aserecinehae , Atufrafinehae , Auðrinehae , Aviaitinehae , Axsinginehae , Baginahae , Fachinehae , Fernovineae , Iulineihiae , Mahalinehae , Nervinae , Udravarinehae , Ulauhinehae , Vacallinehae. , Vacallinehae