Re : [tied] Re: V-, B-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 2:17:35 PM on Saturday, November 8, 2008, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado
> > <dicoceltique@> wrote:
>
> >> may be Celtic/Germanic too
> >> Tragi-sama = great market (?)
> >> * Dreisam (Deutschland)
> >> * Treisen (Ostereich) = Trigisamum
> >> * Trême : Helvetia
>
> > The first one is a river. The two others I can't find,
>
> The second is probably supposed to be the Traisen:
>
> <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traisen_(Fluss)>.

That looks about right.

> >> Turguntum = Turgon (Charentes-France) ? 
>
> Dauzat & Rostaing think that it's probably from a Gaulish
> 'boar' (cf. OIr. <torc>, MWel. <twrch>, OBret. <torch>
> glossing <uerres>; PCelt. *tworko-).

But the Old European -ont- suffix might tempt one to think otherwise.


Torsten