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At 12:02 4/09/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Larry
>
>One short question: some weeks ago a Basque paper hinted that the name of the
>Garonne river is connected to the village Gauna in Araba and to the site Las
>Gaunas in Errioxa. Is it possible the change GARONA > GAHONA?
>
>BTW, you'll be happy to know that, at the end, a mayor paper like El Correo
>critizised the neo-vasco-iberism popularized by El Mundo, remarking, f.
i., that
>it is strange to publish the 'unfolding of Iberian by Basque language' in a
>inmunology bulletin. The bulletin director is... Arnaiz Villena, the
author of
>the known paper on the genetic realtionship between Spanish people,
Basques and
>Berebers.
>
>TIA
>Inaki


[Ed]

Iñaki,

1. Could you give us (me) the references of the articles in El Correo and
El Mundo, as well as that of Arnaiz Villena's article?
I would also be interested to know what neo-vasco-iberismo is (and is
about) in your view and how you view the recent publication of Harald
Haarmann in FLV77 (Basque ethnogenesis...) in that context.

2. About Garrona, Gauna...:
Remember that its oldest recorded name is GARUMNA (J.Caesar, e.g.), which
seems to be one of the many ancient -NA toponyms and patronyms.  -NA could
be interpreted as -EN-A, 'that of, the person of', even though many people
object to that. 
Anyway, GARUM- is difficult to interpret, especially since we don't even
know if it's Aquitanian. If it is, it COULD be related to GAR and the -UN
suffix: the Latin -MN- could just be a rendering of a very explicitly
pronounced geminated N.
Note that GARUMNI was the name of the members of a tribe living there: this
too, would suggest the above interpretation of -NA (frequent in the
Etruscan domain, but not necessarily of Etruscan linguistic origin).
"people of the area of flames (frequent forest fires in the Landes?)"? Just
a thought.

Ed.
Eduard Selleslagh
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