Re: [tied] Re: The Carpathians

--- g <gs001ns@...> wrote:

>
> >GK: When is the term "Carpathian" mountains
> >first attested? I don't seem to have this
> information
> >in my notes. In mediaeval Ukraine they were known
> as
> >the "Ugrian" (or "Hungarian") mountains. There is
> >evidence that an earlier designation was the
> >"Caucasian" mountains ("Kavkasiiskiia"). This is
> >usually linked to to Caucoenses mentioned by
> Ptolemy
> >(a Dacian tribe) and the Caucaland noted by
> Ammianus
> >Marcellinus. So what about "Carpathians"? Is the
> >relation with the historical Carpi genuine? Would
> that
> >not have given something lke "Karps'kii" or
> >"Karpiiskii" in Slavic? Whence this "ath" ?
>
> BTW, how about the Greek isle... Karpathos?
> (between Crete and Rhodos)
>
> George

*****GK: Probably just coincidental. I doubt whether
this island has any other relationship to the
mountains than sound convergence. The island was
certainly known ca. 450 BC. What might its name mean?
I might essay a primitive hypothesis: could it have
anything to do with the Carians, reputedly islanders
before they settled in Anatolia? *******

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