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| Définition : rivière d'Écosse, dans les comtés de
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La rivière Ness est localisé par le trait bleu clair. Le point rouge localise la Morray Firth. |
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Extrait d'Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain. Les points verts localisent des sources des tributaires de la Ness, et le bassin de celle-ci. |
| * M.N Bouillet (1863) : |
| Etymologie : * Rivet & Smith, 422, 423 : SOURCE - Ravenna, 10833 (=5&C 255) : CERTISNASSA As proposed under CERTIS, this entry looks like a conflation. DERIVATION. There are a few analogues : the Nassogne river of Belgium, recorded in A.D. 690 as Nassania fons (Carnoy in RIO, VIII, (1956), 102); two rivers Nestos ( = Nestos) in Dalmatia and Thrace (Pokorny in ZCP, XXI (1940), 121); possibly the second element in British *Raxtonessa. In Adamnan's Life of St Columba the present name fluvium Nesam (II, 19 and II, 21), and its lake is mentioned too (ad lacum fluminis Nisae, II, 22), clearly the modem river and Loch Ness. Of the two roots proposed by R&C, that taken from Ekwall ERN 119 seems the better : *ned- as in Sanskrit nadî 'river', German nass 'wet', Greek notew 'am wet'; Pokorny analyses the name further as from *Nesta < Ned-ta, and thinks the root ultimately Illyrian; Carnoy argues for a root *nat-so, from Indo-European (s)nat- 'flowing'. IDENTIFICATION. The river Ness, Scotland. ***** |
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* M.N Bouillet : * A.L.F Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. B.T Batsford Ltd. London. 1979. Edition 1982. |
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