Цитата: Dana от мая 20, 2010, 06:53
Хотя, этимологически, конечно, верно.
Цитата: Dana от мая 20, 2010, 06:53
Хотя, этимологически, конечно, верно.
ЦитироватьThe origin of the name Isle of Man is unclear. In the Manx Gaelic language the Isle of Man is known as Ellan Vannin, where ellan is a Gaelic word meaning 'island'. The earliest form of 'Man' is Manu or Mana[31] giving the genitive name Manann leading to the word Mannin, which is lenited when used after the feminine word Ellan, giving Mhannin. As 'mh' is pronounced like a 'v' in Goidelic languages, in modern Manx the name becomes Ellan Vannin. These forms are related to the figure of Celtic mythology known as Manannán to the Irish and Manawydan to the Welsh.[32]
The name enters recorded history as Mona (Julius Caesar, 54 BC), and is also recorded as Monapia or Monabia (Pliny the Elder, AD 77), Monœda (Ptolemy, AD 150), Mevania or Mænavia (Paulus Orosius, 416), and Eubonia or Eumonia by Irish writers. In Welsh records it is Manaw, and in the Icelandic sagas it is Mön.[33][34][35][36] Though Mann was never incorporated into the Roman Empire, the island was noted in Greek and Roman accounts where it was called variously Monapia, Mοναοιδα (Monaoida), Mοναρινα (Monarina), Menavi and Mevania[37]. The Old Welsh and Old Irish names for Mann, Mano and Manau, also occur in Manau Gododdin, the name for an ancient district in north Britain along the lower Firth of Forth [38]. The name is probably connected with the Welsh name of the island of Anglesey, Ynys Môn[38] and possibly with the Celtic root reflected in Welsh mynydd, Breton menez, Scottish Gaelic monadh 'mountain' [38]. These probably derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- 'to tower' referring to the island apparently rising out of the Irish Sea on the horizon.[39][40]
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