Per l'etimologia e la storia dei bagaudi
The most widespread etymology of bagaudae, the name of rebel groups in late Roman Gaul, connects it to Old Irish bág ‘fight’ and to the IE root *bhē/ōgh- (IEW 115). There are, however, phonetic problems. The historical sources and the current historiographic research do not support an original mean...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Milano University Press
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/asgm/article/view/20532 |
| Summary: | The most widespread etymology of bagaudae, the name of rebel groups in late Roman Gaul, connects it to Old Irish bág ‘fight’ and to the IE root *bhē/ōgh- (IEW 115). There are, however, phonetic problems. The historical sources and the current historiographic research do not support an original meaning such as ‘fighters’. A morphological and semantic analysis (doubts about a suffix *-aud-, the connotations associated with the term bagaudae, its use in anthroponymy etc.) points to an old dithematic compound meaning ‘collector of goods (to be allotted)’ (cf. IEW 107 *bhag-; 75 *au(dh)-).
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| ISSN: | 1972-9901 2465-0110 |