Benennungsmotiv

English Noun Benennungsmotive en linguistics The semantic reasoning behind an etymological derivation. en The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon 2025 Cid Swanenvleugel 19 Blasco Ferrer's methodology, like his conclusions, are deeply problematic. First and foremost, it is impossible to establish the Benennungsmotive of the hundreds of pre-Roman Sardinian toponyms. As a consequence, the meanings attributed to them are exclusively based on the proposed Basque etymologies and therefore speculative to the extreme.