tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post1509658807596163871..comments2024-03-28T02:45:00.618-07:00Comments on Old European culture: Dun, Tunoldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-24729224706093845272020-08-25T09:53:15.530-07:002020-08-25T09:53:15.530-07:00Thank you. I will remove this name from the list. ...Thank you. I will remove this name from the list. oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-35681020014628115852020-08-25T08:17:06.911-07:002020-08-25T08:17:06.911-07:00Regarding your place names in Wales with the word ...Regarding your place names in Wales with the word "din" meaning fort. you include Carmarthen (Caerf jrrddin). May I humbly point out that Carmarthen is an anglicisation of Caer-myrddin, which mutates in Welsh to Caerfyrddin. Caer is castle or fort from Latin castrum / caster and Myrddin is Welsh for Merlin - so it's Merlin's Castle. <br />imprimaturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16817483957147426186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-86190438011860123922018-06-03T06:39:02.815-07:002018-06-03T06:39:02.815-07:00If one goes far back enough, the words Dun, Tun, T...If one goes far back enough, the words Dun, Tun, Town and their myriad forms found all over Europe and the Indian subcontinent are related with the Sanskrit word "sthan" which means "a place". Thus a Temple is "Devasthan" (Deva in Sanskrit is God similar to Deus in Latin). A city can have "thane as a suffix such as Nagothane. A city close to Mumbai is Thane( pronounced tha-nay). Words such as Hindustan, Pakistan, Turkestan have the "Sthan" suffix.Vishwasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-13428274888236200752017-09-06T11:24:30.502-07:002017-09-06T11:24:30.502-07:00English cordon from Middle French corde, from Old ...English cordon from Middle French corde, from Old French corde, borrowed from Latin chorda (“gut”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, cord”).oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-52453033417636561342017-09-06T09:49:21.808-07:002017-09-06T09:49:21.808-07:00Talking about Kordun, in Ukrainian language the wo...Talking about Kordun, in Ukrainian language the word kordon means the border. <br /><br />sergeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01378742688363491089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-57417335636095129342017-09-02T02:49:36.036-07:002017-09-02T02:49:36.036-07:00Thanks Aleksandra. There is also Kordun in the Bal...Thanks Aleksandra. There is also Kordun in the Balkans :)oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-55818213272556818212017-09-01T23:16:54.497-07:002017-09-01T23:16:54.497-07:00I am from Ukraine, born in Kiev. Last several year...I am from Ukraine, born in Kiev. Last several years my family go for hollydays to Transcarpathian region to Ilnytsa village. I found an article by ukrainian philologist Kostyantyn Tyschenko, where he clamed,, that one of the sreems (small rivers) there called Ialovy comes from celtic ialon. I became curios about celtic roots of these area and decided to check the strange for my slavic ear names of the villages nearby. One of them is Dunkovytsia. And google helped me to find your article, thank you very much. <br /><br />Talking about Karodun mentioned by Ptolemy, some historians think it may be ukrainian Kamyanets podilsky.sergeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01378742688363491089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-4779682483655096202017-02-12T07:13:35.439-08:002017-02-12T07:13:35.439-08:00old type of hause on balkan (srbija, montenegro) h...old type of hause on balkan (srbija, montenegro) https://www.google.me/search?q=savardak&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=709&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwim3aS264rSAhVrIJoKHR6SDWYQsAQIHgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-27431710396317598792016-11-12T05:52:46.498-08:002016-11-12T05:52:46.498-08:00Also Dutch Duin from Duna, sandhill. A very common...Also Dutch Duin from Duna, sandhill. A very common natural landscape along the North Sea coast and often the only hills around. The first time this word was written down is in the 8th century, via Dutch this word spread in other European languages like French dune (12the century), English dune (18 th century), Spanish Duna (16 th century), ...<br /> <br />The origin of the word Duna in Dutch is unclear and probably Celtic, maybe even "belgic", the language spoken in the low countries during roman times. But it is unclear if Belgic was Celtic, germanic or a mix as the Romans couldn't agree on it and they are our main sources. Others also say that it comes from < pie *dheu, to blow, from the blowing sand, like in old church slavonic *dunati http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/duin.<br /><br /><br />Placenames with Dun in Low Countries: Duinkerke/Dunkerque (Dune church), Duinkapelle, Leusden/Lesdain from Lisiduna (a place name that appears in Belgium, The Netherlands and Northern France), Heusden from Husuduna (House dune)also in the netherlands and belgium, Wenduine (skewed dune), Loosduin (loose dune), Kaalduinen (bald dune)...<br /><br />Tun, tuin is also a common placename especially in coastal Northern France, which was also inhabited by The Belgae tribes. See http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=ONW&id=ID347&lemma=tun by toponiemen.<br /><br />So the Belgic tribe possible knew both *dun as hill, and *tun as enclosure, and it is not known if they spoke germanic, celtic, a mix of both or even some other indo european language, the Nord west block.Sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-61517483787097600792016-06-16T12:17:59.885-07:002016-06-16T12:17:59.885-07:00Being from Germany, I have never heard of a town o...Being from Germany, I have never heard of a town or village name with "Zaun". If any exist they are very few and not well known.<br /><br />We do have many towns with the element "Burg". These days Burg designates a medieval castle, but in the past it meant any type of fortress or fortified settlement. For instance in: Aschaffenburg, Augsburg, Bitburg, Brandenburg, Bückeburg, Coburg, Duisburg, Flensburg, Freiburg (several), Hamburg, Homburg (several), Lüneburg, Magdeburg, Quedlinburg, Regensburg, Würzburg and many, many, many others.<br /><br />There are also placenames with "Hag" or "Hagen", which means enclosure, hedge, grove. For instance in: Drolshagen, Hagen, Hagenbach, Hagenow, Langenhagen, Meinerzhagen, Petershagen, Sachsenhagen, Statdhagen, Stavenhagen and Wolfhagen.Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-16647398086792737522016-06-08T11:22:03.593-07:002016-06-08T11:22:03.593-07:00thankyou, your thoughtful exposition was fascinati...thankyou, your thoughtful exposition was fascinating.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095338537590928569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-82420185511612248312016-06-07T12:53:28.777-07:002016-06-07T12:53:28.777-07:00I only know of two Swiss cities: Thun, TrunI only know of two Swiss cities: Thun, TrunTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02554897441944468434noreply@blogger.com