"Antiquity" Volume 15 by Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford

 

O.Crawford: Pokorny gjen emra ilirë në Ishujt Britanik - kryesisht lumenj dhe emrin më të vjetër të Britanisë, Pretanikai Nesoi

Megjithatë Pokorny gjen një numër emrash ilirë në Ishujt Britanik - kryesisht lumenj, duke përfshirë edhe Severn, Tay, Thames dhe Farar, por edhe emërtimet fisnore, Lugi në Sutherland, Epidii në Kintyre dhe miqtë tanë të vjetër Piktët, po ashtu si dhe emrin më të vjetër të regjistruar të Britanisë, Pretanikai Nesoi.

 

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For Pokorny finds a number of Illyrian names in the British Isles — principally rivers, including the Severn, Tay, Thames and Farar, but also tribal appellations, the Lugi in Sutherland, the Epidii in Kintyre and our old friends the Picts as well as the oldest recorded name of Britain, Pretanikai Nesoi.

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Titulli: Antiquity, Volume 15

Autori: Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford

Botues: Antiquity Publications, 1941

 

 

Julius Pokorny (June 12, 1887 – April 8, 1970) was an Austrian linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. He held academic posts in Austrian and German universities.

He was the editor of the important journal of philological studies Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie from 1921 until forced out by the Nazis in 1939, and was responsible for reviving it in 1954. He continued to edit it until his death in 1970. He is the author of the Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary; 1959) which is still widely used today. He also published several collections of Irish writing in German translation, and a thoroughly pro-nationalist history of Ireland in 1916, which appeared in English translation in 1933.

Pokorny was a dedicated supporter of the Pan-Illyrian theory and located the Illyrian civilization's Urheimat between the Weser and the Vistula and east from that region where migration began around 2400 BC. Pokorny suggested that Illyrian elements were to be found in much of continental Europe and also in Britain and Ireland. His Illyromania derived in part from archaeological Germanomania and was supported by contemporary place-names specialists such as Max Vasmer (1928, 1929) and Hans Krahe (1929, 1935, 1940).