-tania

Suffix used for place names The suffix -tania or -etania (English demonym "-tanian", "-tanians")Latin, la -tanum; Spanish, es -tano / es -tana / es -tanos / es -tanas denotes a territory or region in the Iberian Peninsula. Its historical origin is in the pre-Roman Iberia. Its etymological origin is discussed by linguists. Spanish Jesuit philologist Hervás y Panduro proposed their link to the Celtic languages, in which the root *tan or *taín means department or region.Campión, pg. 261 "Doctor Hervás, quoted by Astarloa, adopted the Celtic origin. Celtophiles claim that tan or tain means department, region – In Irish tan, genitive tain, expresses the idea of country, territory." "In Irish, tan (genitive, tain) expresses the idea of country, territory." Other philologists such as Pablo Pedro Astarloa suggest a combination of the Basque abundance suffix eu *-eta (as in Arteta, Lusarreta, Olleta) with the Latin root *nia used in place names (such as Romania, Hispania, Italia). The form of demonym used by some epigraphs in the Iberian language found in coins is -ken or -sken, as in Ikalesken, which is unrelated to the Latin-Hispanic -tanus. This suggests that -tania may be a denomination of Roman origin. According to the historian and archaeologist Manuel Gómez-Moreno, the Latin suffix -tani corresponds to the Iberian -scen,Gómez Moreno Manuel Misceláneas: historia, arte, arqueología 1949 253 For example, the Ausetanians (Ausetani) who called themselves Ausesken. The Romans also applied this suffix to other peoples of the western Mediterranean (Sardinia and Sicily), and to a lesser extent to those of the Italian Peninsula, where however the suffix -ates prevails. Before Roman contact with the Iberian peoples, there were already Greek colonies in Iberia. The ancient Greeks used the older suffix -ητες (-etes), -εται or -ηται (-etai), which would be replaced by -ητανοι or -ετανοι (-etani), according to researcher Ulrich Schmoll (1953).Pérez Vilatela Luciano Lusitania: historia y etnología Real Academia de la Historia 2000 Madrid 94 Another theory, partially developed by the Aragonese jurist Joaquín Costa, relates that suffix to the Berber *ait, which means both "son of" and "the tribe", or with *at, meaning "people." This theory that supports that "aide" (aita) is a relative in Basque.Campión, pg. 261 "Sir Costa believes that etania expresses the generic concept of nation or tribe. And it is supported by the following reasoning: in the berber countries they use the word ait (children of ... as an ethnic to express the concept of kabila or tribe. At, syncopated form of ait, also means people. Especially in Figuig and Oran, being a correlative word of the said Berber plural ait the singular basque aide, "relative". Examples thumb|256x256px|Linguistic families of the Iberian Peninsula before Romanization C1: Galaicos / C2b: Brácaros / C3: Cántabros / C4: Astures / C5: Vacceos / C6: Turmogos / C7: Autrigones-Caristios / C8: Várdulos / C9: Berones / C10: Pelendones / C11: Belos / C12: Lusones / C13: Titos / C14: Olcades / C15: Arévacos / C16: Carpetanos / C17: Vetones / C18-C19: Célticos / C20: Conios / L1: Lusitanos / I1: Ceretanos / I2: Ilergetes / I3: Lacetanos / I4: Indigetes / I5: Layetanos / I6: Ilercavones / I7: Sedetanos / I8: Edetanos / I9: Contestanos / I10: Oretanos / I11: Bastetanos / I12: Turdetanos / G21: Galos / G1: Griegos / P1: Fenicios/Cartagineses / B1: Bereberes. Accitania Ausetania, nowadays Osona. Bergistania, nowadays Berga. Bastetania Carpetania Ceretania Contestania, nowadays Cocentaina. Cosetania Ilergitania, nowadays Lérida. Ilorcitania, nowadays Lorquí. La Jacetania Lacetania Layetania Lusitania Oretania Ossigitania Sedetania Turdetania Outside the Iberian Peninsula Aquitania (Aquitaine) Mauritania Tingitania or Transfretania Zeugitania Occitania Arpitania, which was created in the 70s of Arpes (Alps) and -tania (imitating Occitania) Tripolitania See also -land -stan -patnam Notes References Sources http://meta.gipuzkoakultura.net/bitstream/10690/71740/1/AM_317410.pdf Celtas, íberos y euskaros - Capítulo XIII: Estudio de la toponimia ibérica á la luz de la lengua euskara Campión Arturo Revista Bascongada 9 May 2016 3 June 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160603221932/http://meta.gipuzkoakultura.net/bitstream/10690/71740/1/AM_317410.pdf dead tania Category:Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula Category:Iberian Peninsula Category:Iberians Category:Basque language Category:Place name element etymologies Category:Berbers Category:English suffixes