From: stlatos
Message: 70592
Date: 2012-12-13
>Well, it's a city not a river, but it's also a city not a field, a city not a hill, a city not a wall, but cities can be named after any of those. Is Athens a group of goddesses? Even if it was called "River City", after the word lost its meaning in L (if it ever had one), calling a city by its now-otherwise-unused name and leaving off the now-redundant word for 'city' would have soon be perfectly natural.
> First, since Oscan had *-fr- from medial *-sr- (Neap. <Ottufre> 'October'), it probably had initial *fr- from *sr- as well, like Latin <fri:gus> 'coldness', and Etruscan allows fr-. But even if Oscan retained *sr-, Etruscan allows that as well, with <sren> 'image' vel sim., <srenchva> 'set of images' vel sim. Finally, Rome is not a river, but a city at a ford on a river.
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