Re: [tied] Re: Your historical timeline

At 8:54:19 AM on Thursday, December 2, 2004, tgpedersen
wrote:

>> This seems a logic argument : Romans kept the old
>> toponimy (this is true) but to built a New city near
>> Skodra naming it with '-dava' seems unprobable.

> Counterexample: Juli-acum > Jülich from Julius and the
> Celtic toponymic suffix -acum. So in this case the Romans
> followed local custom in naming. And there are more
> examples.

I'd say rather that they borrowed a Gaulish suffix
signifying 'belonging to' or the like, Latinized it as
<-acum>, and used it rather extensively. Mind you, I don't
see why Alexandru finds Roman use of <-dava> so improbable,
but the cases aren't altogether parallel unless there was
more general Roman use of <-dava>.

Brian