Marc'heg an Avel
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Localisation : Lannuon / Lannion. Breizh Izel
Date d'inscription : 27/03/2007
 | Sujet: DOLOCINDO  Jeu 18 Juin 2009 - 13:09 | |
| Nom problématique. * Dolocindo : nom énigmatique pour Rivet & Smith; ces auteurs préfèrent le rattacher à celui de *DUROCINTUM, quelque part du côté de Gliucester. ------------ * Rivet & Smith, p. 340 : SOURCE - Ravenna 10612 (= R&C 38) : DOLOCINDO We prefer to restore this name to *DUROCINTUM, and discuss the reasons under that heading. However, that is tentative, and there is something to be said in favour of a form more closely resembling that preserved by Ravenna. R&C took it literally; they and Williams found an etymology in *dolo- (Welsh dol, pl. dolau) 'riverside meadow', which is certainly a commonly-used element in modern place-names and which might well be correct in the ancien name, especially as there are a few analogues listed by Holder. The second element proposed by Williams, *cnido- *nido 'steam, smoke' (i.e. cindo rearranged) seems very forced, and is otherwise unknown in toponymy; the meaning given by R&C and Williams for the whole name, 'misty haugh', is thus unsatisfactory. Possibly a better conjecture is that the second element conceals British *sento- 'path' (see CLAUSENTUM), which is spelled with a c in Ravenna's Gabrocentio, though if this is right it might then be preferable to look for an animal name concealed in the first element: These possibilities should be retained. Dillemann (66) thinks Dolocindo a mere ghost-form which arose during copying of Ravenna 106,12-13 : (Sorbio) doni Vindogladia (...) Moriduno represented as — dolo cindo / clavi Mo(rionio) This is attractive and is very much the kind of gross error which Ravenna commits, but we do not think it acceptable. Elsewhere we explain that we think *Sorvioduno is concealed at a slightly earlier stage in Ravenna, and that 'Clavimo' is a corruption of the name of Gloucester. Also, Dillemann's proposal leaves without explanation the disappearance of the long fragments (Sorbio) and (rionio) from the text. If there is after all something in Dillemann's reasoning, it might be better to consider the Dolo- of Dolocindo as having arisen not from (Sorbio)doni but from *Duno, that is Hod Hill as recorded by Ptolemy, which is in this area and is otherwise omitted from Ravenna. ------------ Pour info. JCE  | |
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