Dardani

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Italian

Etymology

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Proper noun

Dardani m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Latin

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Etymology

From or related to Proto-Albanian *dardā (“pear, pear tree”), from *darda (“to spill, pour”).

In 1854, Johann Georg von Hahn was the first to propose that the names Dardani (German Dardaner) and Dardania were related to the Albanian word dάρδε̱ -α (“pear; pear-tree”), accusative dάρδε̱ -νε̱ (cf. modern dardhë (“pear; pear-tree”), stemming from Proto-Albanian *dardā).[1][2][3] This is suggested by the fact that toponyms related to fruits or animals are not unknown in the region (cf. Alb. dele/delmë "sheep" supposedly related to Dalmatia, Ulcinj in Montenegro < Alb. ujk, ulk "wolf" etc.).[4]

A common Albanian toponym with the same root is Dardha, found in various parts of Albania. Dardha in Puka is recorded as Darda in a 1671 ecclesiastical report and on a 1688 map by a Venetian cartographer, and is also the name of an Albanian tribe in the northern part of Dibër.[5]

Proper noun

Dardanī m pl (genitive Dardanōrum); second declension

  1. A Thraco-Illyrian tribe who inhabited a region in the Balkans.

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

plural
nominative Dardanī
genitive Dardanōrum
dative Dardanīs
accusative Dardanōs
ablative Dardanīs
vocative Dardanī
locative Dardanīs

References

  1. ^ Johann Georg von Hahn, Albanesische Studien, 1854, p. 236 (in the 1. Heft)
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 56
  3. ^ 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 Enchelei the ‘eel-men’ and Chelidoni the ‘snail-men’. The name of the Delmatae appears connected with the Albanian word for ‘sheep’ ("delmë") and the Dardanians with for ‘pear’ ("dardhë")."
  4. ^ Elsie, Robert (1998): "Dendronymica Albanica: A survey of Albanian tree and shrub names". Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 34: 163-200 online paper
  5. ^ Elsie, Robert (2015) The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 310
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