Toledo

[Abdoer-Ragmaan Lombard]

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Could Tulaytula, 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, in 
order to reproduce an "o"; long "ê" is given as "ay" [= "ê" in spoken 
Arabic]), which would give *Taúlêtula.


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