The Sudeta Mountains in the Light of Etymology

Authors

BLAŽEK Václav ŠMEJKALOVÁ Martina

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The Journal of Indo-European Studies
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://www.jiesonline.com/issues/
Keywords Oronym; Celtic; Germanic; Latin; etymology
Description The purpose of the present study is to summarize the existing etymological attempts explaining the oronym Sudetes and to propose a new solution conforming to linguistic, historical and archaeological data. A new solution proposed here assumes an adaptation of the originally Latin designation *Sude:ta, with regard to the Latin expression saxeae sudes, i.e. “rocky peaks, crags”, used by Apuleius.
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