Segodunum
Segodūnum is an old Celtic place name derived from Proto-Celtic *sego-dūno-, meaning "strong fortress".[1][2][3]
It can refer to the following locations:
- Rodez, Aveyron, former town of the Ruteni in Aquitania[1]
- Segedunum, Wallsend, England.[1]
- Suin, Saône-et-Loire[1]
- Syon Haute-Savoie[1]
- Würzburg, Bavaria[1]
It may have Germanic counterparts in Swedish Fornsigtuna and Sigtuna, from Proto-Germanic *siga-tūna-, Old Norse Sigtún.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Koch, John T. (2020). CELTO-GERMANIC Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West, p. 131
- ^ a b Entry Sigtuna in Svenskt ortnamnslexikon. Ed. Mats Wahlberg. Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2003.
- ^ The Place-Names of Roman Britain, pp. 452-3. A.L.F. Rivet & Colin Smith (1979). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03953-4