Hallstatt

English thumb|The town of Hallstatt. thumb|Some pottery from the Hallstatt Culture. Etymology From en de Hallstatt. Proper noun A village in Salzkammergut, Austria, known historically for the production of salt. The Hallstatt culture of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. Derived terms en Hallstattan Hallstattian en Places in Austria Villages in Austria Celtic tribes German de: Etymology The second element is de Statt place, stead. Traditionally the first element is taken to be a borrowing from de cel - for ‘salt’, such as cy halen or br holen; see cel-pro *salanos.Winter, H.E. 2004 A history of the Celts 119 David Stifter rejects the traditional etymology because of several problems, among them: the element hall- exists only in names of places settled by Germanic speakers (and nowhere else in the Celtic-speaking areas), the *s > *h sound change is not attested in Continental Celtic, derivation from the ‘salt’ word would have given a non-geminated final l. He instead derives it from de gem-pro *hallą, from de ine-pro *kHlnom hardened skin, encrustation, referring to encrusted salt forming during the simmering of brine.David Stifter Hallstatt – In eisenzeitlicher Tradition? 2005 Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Fallstudien, Methoden, Theorie. Tagungsbeitrage der 1. Linzer Gesprache zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchaologie 229–240 https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/6093/ Linz Pronunciation de /ˈhalˌʃtat/ de De-Hallstatt.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Hall statt Proper noun toponym de municipality s/Upper Austria c/Austria References