From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 15353 Date: 2002-09-10
This is romantic and widely believed but
volketymologisch nonetheless. I think there is a better chance that
Catalonia is a Celtic name derived from an ethnonym like that of the Gaulish
Catalauni or the Brittonic Catuvallauni (from Catu-valos
'battle-chief').