Continuity in European Toponomastics: The (Pre-)Indo-European *kar- / *kal- Root in the Pre-Latin Ligurian Toponymy
This paper is aimed at reconstructing the etymological remote origins of some Prehistoric Ligurian place names derived from the (Proto-)Indo-European root *kar-, ‘stone’1, plausibly constituting a ‘toponymic system’. In this specific onomastic context it is possible to connect with the *kar- root a...
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80384 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40737 https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=305010 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | This paper is aimed at reconstructing the etymological remote origins of some Prehistoric Ligurian place names derived from the (Proto-)Indo-European root *kar-, ‘stone’1, plausibly constituting a ‘toponymic system’. In this specific onomastic context it is possible to connect with the *kar- root a form *kal-2 that should be not another independent stem, but a sort of ‘pseudo-rhotacistic’ variant (maybe produced by a particular process of ‘lenition’) of the same *kar-. Following this kind of etymological restitution, it could be also possible to link this branch of the Ligurian hinterland toponymy to names / nouns from the proto-IndoEuropean (and Ligurian) general lexicon associated to really peculiar hydro-geomorphological phenomena of that territory (the well-known calanchi, ‘badlands’, ‘gullies’, ‘ravines’). |
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