{"id":8829,"date":"2021-04-29T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:24:22","slug":"a-new-interpretation-of-the-name-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/04\/29\/a-new-interpretation-of-the-name-trent\/","title":{"rendered":"A new interpretation of the name &#8216;Trent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/elar.urfu.ru\/handle\/10995\/97222\">linguistics paper<\/a> by Andrew Breeze (University of Navarra, Spain) challenges the usual interpretation of the river-name <em>Trisantona<\/em> (the Trent, as named by Tacitus) as &#8216;trespasser&#8217;. This meaning has been very plausibly assumed to refer to the river&#8217;s frequent flooding and bank-breaking, and shifting ox-bows, in pre-modern times. The new suggested meaning is slightly different and by implication more libidinous&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; reconstructed *<em>Trisuantona<\/em> (from *<em>Tresuantona<\/em>) would thus &#8230; mean &#8216;she of great desire, she who is much loved.&#8217; [The new interpretation works from] the basis of Old Irish <em>s\u00e9t<\/em> (&#8216;treasure&#8217;, Modern Irish <em>seoid<\/em>) and Welsh <em>chwant<\/em> (\u2018desire\u2019, from hypothetical Common Celtic *<em>suanto-<\/em>).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite appearing to be in Russian and appearing in a Russian repository, the PDF is in fact in good English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new linguistics paper by Andrew Breeze (University of Navarra, Spain) challenges the usual interpretation of the river-name Trisantona (the Trent, as named by Tacitus) as &#8216;trespasser&#8217;. This meaning has been very plausibly assumed to refer to the river&#8217;s frequent flooding and bank-breaking, and shifting ox-bows, in pre-modern times. The new suggested meaning is slightly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}