Water-Place: The Origin of the Place-Name Squaneto

• Main Author: Francesco, Perono Cacciafoco
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: Italian
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107366; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40675
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The paper aims at scientifically reconstructing the etymology of the place name Squaneto on the basis of the root *akw- in the "macro-system" of linguistic (not only) Indo-European water stems involved in the formation of many place names in Northern Italy. The Author applies Historical Ph...