by TisILeclerc » 4:05 pm
And mange this Rodders old chav.
Guichard suggests that the antiquity of the Alice, Alex, Alesia sites can be shown through the antiquity of placenames, especially river names.
His idea is that river names have roots that have no meaning in known European languages so must have been given by the earliest people in whatever language they spoke. He is particularly fond of rivers as he sees these as being fundamental to human culture, unlike mountains that tend to be barriers. Rivers have characters according to the landscape they run through and presumably the time of year and how rainy/snowy the weather is.
They are barriers and means of communication at the same time and of course provide life giving water and food. Etc.
He groups basic river name elements into three with these suffixes.
1. anius, anus (careful Borry), onus, enus and related femine forms ania, ona, ena
2. is, os, isius and isia (f)
3. ar, er, ur, with feminine ara, era, ura.
The first group are close to the Latin amnis, amnium which he says mean 'water course'. He argues however that they are not Latin as they are found in countries where Latin was not the local language.
Rhenus (Rhine) Rhodanus (Rhone) Sequana (Seine) Rhodanus apparently means Red River. Divona - Divine River
The third group give names to for example the following: Aar in Switzerland, Ara, Spain, Era -Italy, and the following, Ize, Izu, Izon, Izanne, Lize, Lisonne, Oze, Ozon, Osa, Ouse, Usse, Usa etc.
Some of the elements join together and have becoma the actual name of a river as with Is and Ar which give Isara - Isere in France, Yser in Belgium, Isar, - Bavaria, Iser - Bohemia, Iseritz - Silesia. the lower Danube is the Ister.
Variations can occur, Isara becomes Oise.
The only mountain name he accepts as it occurs in various forms across Europe is one based on 'Or'. All the rest are specific to local languages such as Benn, Penn, Mount etc.
From 'Or' we get Oros, Ora, Gora, Hora, Jora, Jura. These exist in one form or another all over Europe.
In a similar manner he excludes most place names except for those connected with Burgos, Burgium, Purgos, Brig etc.
Likewise Antium, Antio, Antia, Alesia, Alisia, Alizia Alesio.
By excluding everything with a known linguistic origin he hopes to show that the Alesias and related places are related to each other through a prehistoric linguistic origin. This also excludes 'false positives'.
It's also interesting to see on the diagonal south west to north east lines connecting the Alesias through France a similar trajectory to the Michael Line from Cornwall to East Anglia.
Other placenames connected with the Alesias are the previously mentioned Calais, Calet, Cales, Calis, Alion, Ales, Alyson, Alix, Elise, Laizy, Luzy, Mion, Myon, Millon, Versailles, Verseilles, Verceil etc.
These may be corruptions of the original name or may mean that they have a certain relationship with an Alesia. Mion, Myon etc could refer to a central position.
