Noricum

English Proper noun en historical A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria. en Celtic tribes en Austria Related terms Norican Latin Etymology From la grc Νώρικον, from an la unknown source predating the Celts' arrival. Said to be a la xpg - or la txh - word, but of unclear meaning. Robert Ellis (1855) supports a relation to xpg νώρικον (wine)skin, offering the hypothesis that the place derived from the hollowness of the river-valley. For semantic parallel, he cites cy cwm valley, which derives from ine-pro *kumbʰo-, ine-pro *kumbʰéh₂- vessel.Ellis, Robert Robert Ellis (classicist) On the probable Connexion of the Rhaetians and Etruscans with the Thracian stock of nations The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology II 10.1017/CBO9781139383110 1855 2012 3-4 right|thumb|The province within the Roman Empire Pronunciation Nōricum Proper noun Nōricum<2.loc> A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria. Declension Nōricum<2.loc> References Further reading la Provinces of the Roman Empire