Tout ceci tend à confirmer la discussion déjà exposée par Rivet & Smith.
quoique le texte soit en anglais, je le redonne donc ici :
CENIO
SOURCES
- Ptolemy II, 3, 3 : Kenionos potamon ekbolai (= CENIONIS FLUVII OSTIA), var. Kennionos (= CENNIONIS)
Beyond this it is probable that four names from Ravenna are, with different types of corruption, versions of this name :
-- I0547 (= R&C 3) : ELCONIO
-- 10830 ( = R&C 249) : COANTIA, var. COANCIA
-- 10841 (= R&C 270) : CUNIA
-- 10911 ( = R&C 279) : CUNIS
It is apparent, first, from other examples, that
Elconio is
Fl(umeri) Conio, misread from a map and then listed as though it were a habitation-name.
Coantia and
Cunia both figure properly in the river-list, but it is to be noted that each time the name is listed immediately after
Sena (Senua), giving strong indication of being a repetition, and probably a clue to identification.
Cunis figures in the island-list and might just possibly be an island (Ptolemy's Kcbouvvoç ?), but this part of
Ravenna's list is so corrupt that this is not a strong argument.
Cunis follows mention of
Minerve, which we take to be an attribute of Sulis at Bath (see AQUAE SULIS), and it is very probable that
Cunis is yet a further repetition of the same river-name. For the miscopyings involved, see p. 203. It seems a priori likely that Ptolemy, whose MSS agree on
Ken- (= Cen-), would have a more trustworthy form than any in
Ravenna. As is their usual practice, R&C regard all the forms as distinct and try to provide each with an etymology and a location, but this is to place a naive trust in the textual source. Quadruplication in
Ravenna has a precedent, in the four versions of the name of
Moridunum(1); moreover, the present name seems to be somewhere in the south-west, to judge by Ptolemy's position, by the citation of
Cunis after
Minerve, and by the listing of
Fl(umen) Conio in a group of south-western names and after
*Fl(umen) Tabo (see
TAVUS 2) in N. Devon : it was precisely for south-west England that
Ravenna employed an extra source, which enhanced the danger of repetition (see p. 197). Dillemann (65) thinks that at least
Ravenna's
Elconio and
Cunia = Ptolemy's
Cenio and refer to the same river.
DERIVATION. This name can hardly have the Celtic root
*cen- *gen(n)- 'to be born of, descend from', discussed under BRANOGENIUM, for although this is quite common in personal and place-names it is normally present in compounded forms only (for examples, see GPN 175-77). It is impossible to see how the sense of this could be present in uncompounded
Cen- names or in simple forms with suffix, and it is still more difficult to see how such a sense could suit the present river-name
(*Cen- with
*-io- suffix?), which is the only river-name listed under this head in GPN. Since, however, we know of such place-names as
Cenabum/Genabum (now Orléans) and personal names
Cenia, Cennia, Cennius, etc., it is likely that these and others are formed on an element
*cen- of unknown meaning, which was able to use a variety of suffixes in name-formation ; the other
*cen- roots mentioned in GPN seem inapplicable here, for different reasons, and the name is best left unresolved.
IDENTIFICATION. Ptolemy's location suits the river Kenwyn, Cornwall, and the Fal estuary, by which it reaches the sea, would certainly have been noted in any coastal survey. But the modern river-name is almost certainly a back-formation from the village of Kenwyn, so the identification must remain uncertain".
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NB : les noms en grec sont écrits en caractères latins.
je m'excuse auprès de ceux qui ne sont pas 'confortables' en anglais. Au besoin, ils peuvent utiliser des logiciels de traduction, tout en sachant que ceux-ci restent aléatoires.
Mais on notera tout de même dans ce texte, in fine :
"
... it is likely that these and others are formed on an element *cen- of unknown meaning ..."" ... sont formés sur un élément
*cen- de signification inconnue ..."
Il semble bien aussi que
Elconio soit une erreur de lecture à partir d'une graphie en : Fl. Cunio, par agglutination Flcunio >>> Elconio
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JCE
Mar 23 Avr 2024 - 17:29 par nialpi
