Re: Coromines on Barcino in Onomasticon Cataloniae?

From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 71858
Date: 2016-01-25

I thank You very much indeed! So, after Coromines, the only existing
(published) hypothesis about Barcino is Villar's connection with *wara
'water' (or not?)...

2016-01-25 8:48 GMT+01:00, Ton Sales ton.sales@... [cybalist]
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> El 13/10/2015 a les 0:09, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@... [cybalist] ha escrit:
>> Does anyone have the text of the entry /Barcino // /Barcelona /in
>> the /Onomasticon Cataloniae /by Joan Coromines?
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> Coromines never wrote this entry. To the disappointment of many of us,
> he expressly justified this odd fact by saying that he felt he wasn't
> able to give a sure or definite etymology of the place and didn't dare
> to be wrong in this matter, in which he considered, for very personal
> reasons, that to be right and precise was of the utmost importance.
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> I'm sorry to be so late in responding. I've just discovered your message
> now, three months late.
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> Ton Sales, from Barcelona
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