Re[2]: [tied] Tor/Tur/(e)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 29627
Date: 2004-01-15

At 7:05:08 AM on Thursday, January 15, 2004, Marco Moretti
wrote:

> Dordogne is attested (If I'm not wrong) as Durationa or
> something similar.

<Duranius> 5th c. (Sid. Apoll.), <Dorononia> 6th c. (Greg.
of Tours), <Dornonia> 8th-10th c.

Dauzat & Deslandes add that 'les géographes du XVIIIe s.,
avaient coupé arbitrairement en <Doredogne>, en imaginant
qu'elle était formée de deux ruisseaux portant ces noms'.

Brian