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| Sujet: LUGDUNUM Ven 13 Nov 2009 - 14:01 | |
| Un lieu non identifié, apparemment au nord de l'Angleterre ( sous le Mur d'Hadrien). Étude étymologique selon Rivet & Smith (1982), The Place-names of Roman Britain, p 401 : SOURCE. - Ravenna 10717 (=R&C 140) : LUGUNUNO, var. LUGUNDINO. The first n in Ravenna's entry could have arisen if a copyist mistakenly assumed a tilde (abbreviation for n) over the previous letter (Lugu-). " This name was borne by a number of continental towns, of which the best-known is (with direct derivation) Lyon (Rhône,France). With elements reversed it is also, as R&C note, the origin of Dinlleu in Caernarvonshire (Wales). The name is recorded in a variety of spellings : Lugudunum, Lugidunum, Lugdunum, the best-known (Lyon) almost always in the last form, with early loss of the unstressed vowel; the form of the British name is the most classical. The first element has attracted much study, summansed by Ellis Evans in GPN 219-20; the consensus still faveurs the etymology proposed long ago by d'Arbois de Jubainville, 'fortress of the god Lugus. Lugus / Lug in later Celtic tradition, Lleu as the name of a Welsh hero) was a god equated with Mercury, whose cult had a wide distribution and whose name is found also (via a personal name) in British Luguvalium', the basic meaning is 'light' (older Welsh lleu 'light', Welsh goleu, Breton goulou, etc.). Whatmough in Ogam, vu (1955), 353-56, suggesed that Lugu- should be compared with a Celtic lougeon (Aougov) deduced from Strabo, 'marsh, swamp', which is possibly to be seen also in the name of Paris, Lutecia if for *Lucotecia (more usually associated with Lucotios, the 'mouse-god '); this *luco-, *lugo- then being connected with *locu- 'lake' as in British Locatrebe, Segelocum; hence 'marsh-fort' as the sense of Lug(u)dunum. But this does not make good sense when applied to the Gallic Lugdunum (a hill-site; the low-lying settlement was separately named as Condate or Ad Confluentem), and there is no reason to suppose that it could have applied to the British Lugudunum. Two recent studies of the question are those of P. Flobert in REL, XLVI (1968), 264-80, and A. Audin, Mélanges. . .J. Tricon (Lyon, 1972), II-21. For -dunum, see BRANODUNUM; for the formation with a divine name, compare CAMULODUNUM. For Lugu- names in Gaul, see Vincent 209. ------------ On trouvera le texte en clair, à l'adresse : http://marikavel.org/lieux/lieux-l.htmOn voit que les auteurs ont évoqué les théories étymologiques souvent confrontées pour l'explication de ce nom, surtout celui de Lyon, sur le Rhône. JCE | |
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