𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔

Umbrian

Etymology

An *-ā-nos adjective, most likely Literally, “of or relating to Trebula”, the name of a village, the root of which is shared in Latin trabs (“wooden beam”) and Oscan [Term?] (“house”).^[1] The root is found in many Italic place names; this one is possibly Trebula Suffenas or Trebula Mutusca, both in the Sabina^[2] or alternatively what is now called Troppola, 9 km northeast of Iguvium, now a frazione in the modern comune of Gubbio.^[3] Only attested in the masculine plural.

Adjective

𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔 • (treplanes) (early Iguvine) (ablative masculine plural)

Trebulan. only used referring to with 𐌅𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔 m pl (veres, “gate”), to refer to the “Trebulan gate”.
- early 2^nd century BCE, Iguvine Tablets, table I, side A (photo; facsimile), lines 2–3:
  ² [...] 𐌐𐌓𐌄 𐌅𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌔⁚𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔⁚ ³ 𐌉𐌖𐌅𐌄⁚𐌊𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌖𐌅𐌉⁚𐌕𐌓𐌄 𐌁𐌖𐌚⁚𐌚𐌄𐌕𐌖⁚ [...]
  preveres treplanes / iuve krapuvi tre buf fetu
  In front of the Trebulan gate sacrifice three oxen to Jupiter Grabovius.

Attested forms

(accusative masculine plural) e.Ig. 𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌖 (treplanu); l.Ig. treblano
(ablative masculine plural) e.Ig. 𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔 (treplanes); l.Ig. treblanir, treblanir

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trabs, -s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 626
^ Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 2: “The name of the third gate […] contains a root treb- which was used extensively in Italic place names, but two of the possible sources, Trebula Suffenas and Trebula Mutuesca, were in the Sabine country […].”
^ Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “treblaneir”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 53: “Secondo ogni probabilità la porta si chiamava "treb(e)lana" perché si apriva sulla via per Treb(e)la, nome di un possibile abitato, da alcuni identificato con l'attuale zona di Troppola, pochissimi chilometri a nord di Gubbio, presso le sorgenti del Sentino. ― Most likely the door was named "treb(e)lana" because it opened on the road for Treb(e)la, name of a possible town, by some identified as Troppola, a few kilometers north of Gubbio, near the springs of the Sentino.”

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trabs, -s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 626

[2] Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 2: “The name of the third gate […] contains a root treb- which was used extensively in Italic place names, but two of the possible sources, Trebula Suffenas and Trebula Mutuesca, were in the Sabine country […].”

[3] Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “treblaneir”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 53: “Secondo ogni probabilità la porta si chiamava "treb(e)lana" perché si apriva sulla via per Treb(e)la, nome di un possibile abitato, da alcuni identificato con l'attuale zona di Troppola, pochissimi chilometri a nord di Gubbio, presso le sorgenti del Sentino. ― Most likely the door was named "treb(e)lana" because it opened on the road for Treb(e)la, name of a possible town, by some identified as Troppola, a few kilometers north of Gubbio, near the springs of the Sentino.”

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