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English
Proper noun
Noricum
(historical) A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria.
From Ancient GreekΝώρικον(Nṓrikon), from an unknown source predating the Celts' arrival. Said to be a Phrygian or Thracian word, but of unclear meaning.
Robert Ellis (1855) supports a relation to Phrygian νώρικον(nṓrikon, “(wine)skin”), offering the hypothesis that the place derived from the hollowness of the river-valley. For semantic parallel, he cites Welsh cwm(“valley”), which derives from Proto-Indo-European *kumbʰo-, *kumbʰéh₂-(“vessel”).[1]
^ Ellis, Robert (1855) “On the probable Connexion of the Rhaetians and Etruscans with the Thracian stock of nations”, in The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume II, published 2012, →DOI, pages 3-4
Further reading
“Noricum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Noricum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
