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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Possibly from an Illyrian word meaning "swallow," from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to cut”) + *dwóh₁ (“two”), representing modern Albanian dallëndyshe (“swallow”).
The name Taulantii appears to be connected with the word dallëndyshe, or tallandushe from Proto-Albanian *dalna and Proto-Albanian *duwai, meaning "swallow".[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tau̯.lán.ti.oi̯/ → /taˈβlan.ti.y/ → /taˈvlan.di.i/
Noun
Ταυλάντῐοι • (Taulántioi) m (genitive Ταυλαντίων); second declension
- Taulantii, an Illyrian tribe settled on the coast of modern Albania.
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Wilkes, John (1992) The Illyrians, Wiley, →ISBN, page 244 "Names of individuals peoples may have been formed in a similar fashion, Taulantii from ‘swallow’ (cf. the Albanian tallandushe) or Erchelei the ‘eel-men’ and Chelidoni the ‘snail-men’."
Further reading
- “Ταυλάντιοι”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Wilkes, John (1992). The Illyrians. Wiley. p. 244