Toledo

Tue May 29 13:05:32 UTC 2007

Could Tulaytula (Ṭulayṭula, طليطلة), the Arabic form of Toledo, have been derived  from *Tôlêtula", a Gothic hypocorism of *Tôlêtô < Latin Tôlêtum? Perhaps *Taúlêtô should be regarded as the Gothic etymon (long unstressed "ô" having merged in Vulgar Latin with short /o/, and seeing that Arabic uses a short "u" preceded by an emphatic t [ṭ], in order to reproduce an "o"; long "ê" is given as "ay" [= "ê" in spoken Arabic]), which would give *Taúlêtula.

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