Drobeta-Turnu Severin
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editFrom Romanian Drobeta-Turnu Severin.
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editPreviously known as Turnu Severin, from turn (“tower”) + Severin, possibly from Old Church Slavonic сѣверьнъ (sěverĭnŭ, “northern”), from сѣверъ (sěverŭ, “north”), referring to its geographical position within the Second Bulgarian Empire.
The city's name was originally linked by historians with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, during whose reign the name of the city was Drobeta Septimia Severiana. Another possible theory, is that Severin's name was taken in memory of Severinus of Noricum, who was the patron saint of the medieval colony Turnu, initially a suffragane of the Diocese of Kalocsa.
Drobeta, which was the ancient Roman name for the city, was added back to the city's name in 1972.
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) According to Hamp and Hyllested, Drobeta reflects a Roman misinterpretation of *Druwā-tā (the wooden place) with a postposed article, reflecting an old Albanian syntag for wood dru from Proto-Albanian *druwa-tai [1]
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edit- ^ Hyllested, A., & Joseph, B. (2022). Albanian. In T. Olander (Ed.), The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective (pp. 223-245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108758666.013
- ^ Drobeta-Turnu Severin in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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