treblanof

Umbrian
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Etymology

An *-ā-nos adjective, most likely Literally, “of or relating to Trebula”, the name of a village, the root of which is shared in Latin trabs (“wooden beam”) and Oscan [Term?] (“house”).[1] The root is found in many Italic place names; this one is possibly Trebula Suffenas or Trebula Mutusca, both in the Sabina[2] or alternatively what is now called Troppola, 9 km northeast of Iguvium, now a frazione in the modern comune of Gubbio.[3] Only attested in the plural.

Adjective

treblanof m pl

  1. Trebulan. Only used in verof treblanof (“Trebulan gate”)

Attested forms
Inflection of treblanof? m pl
accusative
e.Ig. 𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌖 (treplanu)
l.Ig. treblano
ablative
e.Ig. 𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌄𐌔 (treplanes)
l.Ig. treblanir, treblanir

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “trabs, -s”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 626
  2. Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, page 2: “The name of the third gate […] contains a root treb- which was used extensively in Italic place names, but two of the possible sources, Trebula Suffenas and Trebula Mutuesca, were in the Sabine country […].”
  3. Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “treblaneir”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 53: “Secondo ogni probabilità la porta si chiamava "treb(e)lana" perché si apriva sulla via per Treb(e)la, nome di un possibile abitato, da alcuni identificato con l'attuale zona di Troppola, pochissimi chilometri a nord di Gubbio, presso le sorgenti del Sentino. [Most likely the door was named "treb(e)lana" because it opened on the road for Treb(e)la, name of a possible town, by some identified as Troppola, a few kilometers north of Gubbio, near the springs of the Sentino.]”
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