Aunes

Latin

Ons ("Aunes"), as seen from the mainland

Alternative forms

• Aones

Etymology

From Classical Latin Aunios, or a re-borrowing from the same substrate language.

Proper noun

Aunes ? (indeclinable)

1. (Medieval Latin) Ons Island, off the coast of Galicia, Spain
   • 899, Manuel Lucas Álvarez (ed.), La documentación del Tumbo A de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, pages 87-91:

     insulam Aunes cum ecclesia Sancti Martini; insulam Arauza cum ecclesia Sancti Iuliani ibi fundata; item insulam Saluare

     Ons island with the church of Saint Martin; Arousa island with the church of Saint Julian there founded; item Sálvora island

   • 911, Manuel Lucas Álvarez (ed.), La documentación del Tumbo A de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, pages 94-96:

     insulas que sunt infra mare, quas pater noster domnus Adefonsus rex per testamentum concessit Sancto Loco uestro, id est: Aones, Framio, Saluare, Arauza, Sias et Tanao

     islands which are before the sea, which our father, king Adefons, give your Holy Place by means of a testament, that is: Ons, [Framio], Sálvora, Arousa, Cíes and Tambo

Descendants

• Galician: Ons

References

• Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "Los topónimos de la Galicia romana: Nuevo estudio / The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136, esp. p. 111 (Islas, then Aunios) – this doesn't have Aunes

Further reading

• Illa de Ons on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl