Pietroasa (etymology +)
dciurchea
dciurchea at YAHOO.COM
Fri Jul 28 11:02:46 UTC 2006
Hello ualarauans,
I hope I can be of some help. The holly mountain of the gets
(dacians) was Kogaion; it fits the location of Cogeanus river
(Caucoensi tribe) and today toponimics and names: Kogalniceni,
Kogalniceanu. Today's name of the peak would be Ceahlau.
(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/macedonia_1849.jpg)
--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans at ...> wrote:
>
> Hailai jut Fragkisk jah Andraiu!!
>
> 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?
>
> Ualarauans
>
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Francisc Czobor" <fericzobor@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Caucaland was not in the plain at Pietroasa, but in the Montes
> > Serorum: there took place the battle with the Huns. At Pietroasa
> > probably the Visigoths hid their treasure before hastily
> retreating
> > to Caucaland.
> >
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Andrei Stirbu <andrei_stirbu@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > The placement of Caucocensii on contemporary historical maps
is
> > aproximative. I see no reason for Goths to name the region
> highland
> > as long the region of Pietroasa is at the limit of the plain and
> > small hills, rather in the plain:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=p.a6e.jpg
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?
> img=Buzau_map.700.jpg
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So, in my opinion, is very plausible that Goths used the
Dacian
> > name of the Cauca region.
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrei
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > >
> >
>
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