Re: Ligurian

Trond Engen:

> dgkilday57:
>
>> DGK:
>> Another Bart is mentioned in the index to Hammond's France Road Atlas,
>> just east of the Swiss/French border in western Switzerland. (I
>> cannot find the place on the map itself inside the square referenced
>> by the index.) It is hard to believe the old Province Novara was this
>> large. I hope this is not merely an error on d'Arbois's part which
>> Dottin and Bottiglioni failed to catch. The latter was fairly fussy
>> about the Corsican place-names with which he dealt in his monograph.
>
> Chez-le-Bart, a village in District de Boudry on the north shore of
> Lac de Neuchâtel. 'Le Bart' looks as it might be (or have been) the
> name of a small river running into the lake there.

Or maybe not. I thought of 'chez' as Latin <casa>, but it's probably
just the familiar preposition meaning "in the home of", with 'le Bart'
being the surname of some old proprietor.

> But I'll rush to say that I've never been anywhere near and know
> nothing about Swiss toponymics.

I'll keep that caveat.

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Trond Engen