Re: Ligurian

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 69709
Date: 2012-06-01

2012/5/25, dgkilday57 <dgkilday57@...>:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Trond Engen <trond@...> wrote:
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>> dgkilday57:
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>> > Thanks very much. I actually misread the map index, and the Bart was
>> > on the French side of the border in De'p. Doubs (and I still cannot
>> > locate it on the map), apparently the same place found by Bh.
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>> It's a village about to be swallowed of the agglomeration of Montbéliard
>> (midway between Besançon and Mulhouse, just off the Swiss wart). I found
>> it easily in Google Earth, but here's a cyclemap that renders topography
>> simple and well:
>> <http://www.openstreetmap.no/?zoom=14&lat=47.48665&lon=6.77523&layers=0B0000>.
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>> The most prominent topographic feature seems to be Mont Bart, a hill
>> with a fort, but there's also a brook running into l'Allan, and the
>> confluence of l'Alan and le Doubs is nearby..
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> I see. Bart is just southeast of Dung. Since there is no point in carrying
> things over a hill, I can hardly justify Lig. *barto- < *bHr.-to- here.
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> DGK
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Bhrihskwobhloukstroy:

Would a Celtic *barti- = OIr. bairt then be conceivable, maybe as a
female river-deity?