Pietroasa (etymology +)

[andrei_stirbu]

I think is possible.

Another example of toponimic gothization is Dinogetia from Roman time,
which is mentionedas Denegothia, neighbour with Noviodunum. Denegothia
is a Christian martyr from the 4th century which was celebrated at
Tomis. His name seems to originate in Dinogetia's name. In the group
of Martyrs among whom he is mentioned is also a certain Gottia.



> Could it happen that we face here another example of what I heard is 
> called "automatic conversion" (Uriel Weinreich's term), similar to 
> what is supposed to be the case with the name of the city of 
> Nouiodunum (prob., = today's Isakca, the right bank of the Danube), 
> mentioned by Jordanes in Get. 35 as [a ciuitate] nouietunense. 
> Nouiodunum, being a very widespread name, Celtic in origin (Gaulish 
> *Novio-du:non "new town" > French Nevers (dep. Nievre), Nouan-le-
> Fuzelier (dep. Loir-et-Cher), and there were many more), so this 
> another Celtic *Novio-dunon could be recognized by the Goths as 
> consisting of the words which were Gothic niuja- "new" and *tu:n N. -
> a "fence" or "fenced place", the latter being a Celtic loanword into 
> Common Germanic (*du:non > *tu:nan with a consonant shift d > t). 
> The original form in (pre-?)Jordanes could be *ciuitas neuiotunense 
> (cf. Neuiodunum in Upper Pannonia), later "hypercorrected", which 
> could have sprung from probable Gothic *Niujatun (< Ne/ouiodunum) as 
> the actual name of the city in the Gothic language (kept in a 
> legend, maybe).
> 
> Now, the Goths of Athanareiks come to Transdanuvia (soon to become 
> Gutthiuda of the Calender) and meet Cauco(c)ensii. This Dacian (?) 
> name might contain the same IE root *kouko- "high", "mountain" as 
> does Go. hauhs (has the ethnonym's etymology been clarified by 
> specialists in some way?). It could mean "mountaineers" maybe. And 
> the Goths feel it (or are said about it) and call them *Hauha-
> warjos "those living in high places", for example, and the country 
> they call Hauhaland, the names being both phonetic and semantic 
> imitations of the native name. Maybe there had been a stage of Go. 
> *Kaukaland? What do you think?







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