Re: Sin once more

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:

>
>
> > > 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".

Is? It must be great to be so certain.

> > > (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
>

I can't doubt that. A parallel form *Parisium would explain the
present name of Lutetia. Do you have another explanation?

> > 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".

Now someone does.


Torsten