Tricorii
The Tricorii or Tricorers ( Greek Τρικόριοι ; in German: "consisting of three armies") were a small Celtic tribe from the alpine Gallia Narbonensis , who settled in the Drac valley . The Tricorii are in the context of the Hannibal's Alpine range for the year 218 BC. When this passed their settlement area. In 58 BC They joined the Helvetii platoon .
The name ( ethnonym ) of Tricorii is a two-tier composite of the urkeltischen elements * tris (as modifier ) for the ordinal number "three" and * Koryo (festlandkeltisch, Gallo> corio ) as a base word of a tribe or from that formed military formation, a " Army ". Indo-European analogous formations are Gothic harjis , Lithuanian kãrias for “army” < Indo-European * koryo- “war army , war”. Due to the conspicuous name of the province of Trégor in Brittany , it is assumed that an old connection with the Tricorers is that some of them migrated there. In the Cornish place name inventory there is evidence of the same name in the forms Tregear , Tregeare and Pagus Tricurius ( 7th century ), today's Triggshire .
See also
literature
- Herbert Graßl : Tricorii. In: Hubert Cancik (Ed.): The New Pauly. ( Brill Online, 2015. Retrieved June 2, 2015 )
- John T. Koch (Ed.): Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 5 T-Z, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara CA, Denver CO, Oxford (England) 2006, ISBN 1-85109-440-7 , p. 1686.
- Ranko Matasovic: Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17336-1 , pp. 219, 390.
- Karl Scherling: Tricorii. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE) . Volume VII A, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Col. 101-102.
- Karl Horst Schmidt : The composition in Gallic personal names. In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie 26 (1957), p. 280 ( fee required from de Gruyter ).
Remarks
- ↑ Appian , Celtica 1.8.
- ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 3,34.
- ↑ Strabon , Geographika 4,1,11; 4,6,5.
- ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 21,31,9; Ammianus Marcellinus , Res gestae 15,10,11.
- ↑ Appian, Celtica 1.8.