---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> *leger- belongs to which language? More recent dictionaries disagree on the origin of this stem, instead favouring something related to ‘lie’, French lit ‘bed’ etc. (still ‘mire’ if you like, but having no sense relation to ‘melt’). For example, Falileyev Dict. of continental Celtic place-names s.n. Ligauni; Delamarre Dict.de la langue gauloise s.v. liga, lega.
*Legerio (Castleford Yorks SE 4225) is what I reconstruct from the Antonine Itineraries V and VIII, 475.6 and 478.7, Legeolio and Legecio var. Laiecio with 'g' superscript to the first 'i'.The Ravenna Cosmography's Lagentium has nothing to do with this place.
Matasović's Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (2009) p 236 has two verbs *leg-o-, 'melt' and *leg-o-, 'to lay, lie down'.
To me, the former seems more appropriate.
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> What is the latest thinking on a connection to Welsh Lloegr?
The most recent I can find in Google Books is BBCS vol 23, a few pages (27 & 28)are all I can peek at. No idea of the author or title.
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Tom Ikins
The Roman Map of Britain
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