Also noteworthy is recent suggestion that number of British coastal names (incl Thanet!) may be of Punic origin! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Also noteworthy is recent suggestion that number of British coastal names (incl Thanet!) may be of Punic origin! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
So, for example, the Isle of Thanet, Kent, may well=Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess...pic.twitter.com/oGwLM0D7Os
Indeed, recently argued by Broderick (supported by Richard Coates) that even name Britain may be Punic or similar, meaning 'island of tin'!
And that is the end of this thread :) Incidentally, refs for name Britain as Punic=Beiträge zur Namenforschung, 44 (2009)+Nomina, 35 (2012)
In case it's of use to anyone, I've tried to draw together the strands of this thread into a 'storify' here :) https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
(btw, & just for fun, worth noting again that famed 5th/6thC British writer Gildas has a poss intriguing name..! ;) https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/647381921346002944 …)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
A v unusual 5thC stone from N Wales; CISP compares Barrectus w/ N.African (Punic) name Baric http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/mwrog_1.html …pic.twitter.com/HHmURRtonf
No need to look to N-Africa. Barrectus contains popular element barro- "top, summit" + rectu/o- "law, right"
*barrorecto- underwent early Brit. syncope > barrecto- (P. Sims-Williams, Celtic Inscriptions of Britain 130)
Yes, checked that before posting earlier :) Agree that def possible, but thought worth noting CISP view worth >
> noting anyway, esp given other curious features of stone e.g. Dis Manibus etc, & Sims-Williams tentative both >
> on p. 130 and also on p. 273, or so it seemed to me :)
Yes, S-W formulates rather cautiously, but I don't see any reason for this. Name looks perfectly Celtic, ...
...in transition to Brit. langs. -recti c'd also belong to OIr. recht 2 paroxysm, outburst of anger, passion
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