Re: Sin once more

> > Parisi or Parisii. Their capital was Petuaria
>
> Is that *Pet-wari- (cf. Baju-wari-, Angri-wari-)?
> Doesn't X-wari- mean something like "the former territory of the X"?
> Occupied Pict-land?

The name is Gallo-Brittonic *petuar- "quarter".

> > (Parisiorum),
>
> More likely Parisium.
> The tribal designation of the Latin name of cities in former Celtic
> was in the Celtic gen.pl. -um, not the Latin one in -orum, according
> to an article I read a long time ago, cf. Augusta Vindelicum
> (Augsburg), or we would have had *Parisieur for Paris and *Torinoro
> for Turin.

Parisiorum is the form given in several ancient sources and is also
found on the following inscription:

Belegstelle: CIL 13, 02924 (4, p 35) = IAParis-appa, 00002
Provinz: Lugudunensis
Ort: Auxerre / Autessiodurum

D(is) M(anibus) / et memoriae Aureli / Demetri Adiutori(s) /
procc(uratorum) civitatis Senonum / Tricassinorum Meldo/rum Parisiorum
et ci/vitatis Aeduorum Inge/nuinia Aurelia coniugi / carissimo et
Aurelia De/metriane et Aurelius / Demetrius fili(i) patri / carissimo
faciundum / curaverunt

> And BTW, since the names Bodiocasses and Baiocasses seems to indicate
> the same tribe
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiocasses
> is it possible that the Boii should also have been called *Bodii- ?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boii

See Delamarre's DLG for a full discussion of the various etymologies
proposed by scholars. No one that I am aware of connects Boii with the
root ba(d)io-/bodio- "blond".

- Chris Gwinn