Onomastic Evidence for Early Germanic and Celtic Contact in
Central Europe

D 2020

Onomastic Evidence for Early Germanic and Celtic Contact in Central Europe

BLAŽEK, Václav

Basic information

Original name

Onomastic Evidence for Early Germanic and Celtic Contact in Central Europe

Authors

BLAŽEK, Václav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Washington D.C. Revisiting Dispersions - Celtic and Germanic ca. 400BC - ca. 400 AD. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference held at Dolenjski muzej, Novo mesto, Slovenia (October 12-14, 2018), p. 143-161, 19 pp. 2020

Publisher

Institute for the Study of Man

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60202 Specific languages

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00122635

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-0-9845353-7-8

Keywords in English

toponym; Ptolemy; Goegraphy; coordinates; etymology

Abstract

V originále

The present study provides an etymological analysis of toponyms collected by Ptolemy from Northeast Europe, as known to him in the mid-second cent. CE. The territory studied roughly corresponds to contemporary Poland and part of the Czech Republic. The following conclusions were formulated: In the area enclosed by the 36th longitude, the 48th latitude, the south coast of the Baltic sea and the Vistula river, 42 place-names (not including hydro-, oro- and ethnonyms) are mentioned in Ptolemy’s work. Two of these are of Latin origin, one is probably of Greek origin, in one case the Baltic etymology seems most promising and two-three toponyms may be ascribed to the so-called ‘Old European’ substratum. Of the remaining 36 terms the share of the Celtic and Germanic toponyms is 23 : 13. The northernmost border of probable Celtic toponyms in the area of contemporary Poland may be determined between the 54th and 53rd latitudes (c. 53o30').

Links

MUNI/A/0873/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Podpora výzkumu studentů na MU - obecná jazykovědy a baltistika 2020

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

BLAŽEK, Václav. Onomastic Evidence for Early Germanic and Celtic Contact in Central Europe. In Markey, Tom L.; Repanšek, Luka. Revisiting Dispersions - Celtic and Germanic ca. 400BC - ca. 400 AD. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference held at Dolenjski muzej, Novo mesto, Slovenia (October 12-14, 2018). Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2020, p. 143-161. ISBN 978-0-9845353-7-8.

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BLAŽEK, Václav. Onomastic Evidence for Early Germanic and Celtic Contact in Central Europe. In Markey, Tom L.; Repanšek, Luka. \textit{Revisiting Dispersions - Celtic and Germanic ca. 400BC - ca. 400 AD. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Conference held at Dolenjski muzej, Novo mesto, Slovenia (October 12-14, 2018)}. Washington D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man, 2020, p.~143-161. ISBN~978-0-9845353-7-8.

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