Dormagen should also be taken into consideration.
Keith
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Subject: Durnovaria or Duronovaria?
I was hoping for some comments, but perhaps it was lost in the shuffle.
On 6/4/2013 I wrote:
>Are we even dealing with Durno- 'fist'? The AI's forms are Iter XV Durnonovaria, Iter XII Durnonovaria, var. Durnovaria.
>The presumption has been that we are dealing with an extra -no-, thus Durnovaria which would give W & A-S Durngueir and Dornwaraceaster.
>Alternatively, if there is only an extra -n-, and the form was Duronovaria, would we still have the same result?
Duronovaria can be segmented as duro- 'door', commonly understood as gates of a native fort; and -novaria of uncertain meaning, is found as Novaria (now Novara) a town of Cisalpine Gaul.
>(Ravenna's Duriarno is on the Deerness, Holsworthy?, contra PNRB.)
Tom Ikins
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