05-31-2016, 06:12 PM
(05-31-2016, 05:42 PM)John1 Wrote: A little perturbed by the certainty and monolithic view of compounding words being championed here
I said 'I don't think so' and Michael said he 'cannot say one way or the other with certainty' - hardly any monoliths being championed here!
Sure, there are Latin/Greek compound words, but we were talking about place names, and specifically place names in Britain. Very specifically, we were talking about the proposed etymology of a name in the (notoriously garbled and very late) Ravenna Cosmography that tries to take words from Latin and Greek and combine them to produce a particular meaning.
Since the proposed meaning of the name doesn't seem to work, why should we even consider this 'Iaciodulma' place as anywhere other than Lactodurum/Towcester? And what significance does it have to this discussion anyway?
Nathan Ross