Ist der Name der nordwestböhmischen Stadt dt. Kaaden / tschech. Kadaň keltischen Ursprungs?
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Harald Bichlmeier
Abstract
The North-West-Bohemian town Kaaden (Czech Kadaň) lies in an area where Celts settled some two millennia ago. For this reason a Celtic etymology was proposed for this placename, although a Slavic etymology based on the Common Slavic personal name *Kadanъ (attested in Old Czech, Polish, Sorabian) had existed for decades: Kadaň (taken over later on into German as Ka(a)den) was derived from the personal name *Kadanъ with the possessive suffix Common Slavic *-jь and meant originally ‘Kadan’s (castle/town)’. It will be shown that the Celtic etymology which argues for a Proto-Celtic *katu-dūno- ‘town/castle of the fight/battle’ invokes too many ad-hoc-developments and scarcely (if at all) attested soundchanges to be regarded at all plausible. The ‘classical’ Slavic etymology, on the other hand, can be shown to be flawless in all aspects.
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- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Aufsätze
- The story of the monk and the devil
- Ist der Name der nordwestböhmischen Stadt dt. Kaaden / tschech. Kadaň keltischen Ursprungs?
- Lia Fáil and other stones: symbols of power in Ireland and their origins
- Fin as Oshin – A reappraisal
- Bemerkungen über die altkeltischen Fluchrituale: Zum Blei von Chartres und einem lateinischen Fluchtäfelchen mit Formeln keltischen Ursprungs
- L’aubépine sans épines. Une curiosité dans la procédure d’exécution du glám dícenn
- Besprechungen
- Blom, Alderik H.: Glossing the Psalms. The emergence of the written vernaculars in western Europe from the seventh to the twelfth centuries
- Delamarre, Xavier: Les noms des Gaulois
- Fomin, Maxim, and Séamus Mac Mathúna, in collaboration with John Shaw & Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, assisted by Séamus Mac Floinn: Stories of the sea. Maritime memorates of Ireland & Scotland
- Ó huiginn, Ruairí (ed.): Lebor na hUidre. Codices Hibernenses eximii 1.
- Roma, Elisa & David Stifter (ed.): Linguistic and philological studies in Early Irish
- Russell, Paul: Reading Ovid in medieval Wales (Text and context)
- Siddons, Michael Powell: Welsh genealogies A.D. 1500–1600
- Sims-Williams, Patrick (ed.): Liber coronacionis Britanorum
