Dardani

Italian

Etymology

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Proper noun

Dardani m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Latin

Etymology

From or related to Proto-Albanian *dardā (“pear, pear tree”), from *darda (“to spill, pour”).

In 1854, Johann Georg von Hahn was the first to propose that the names Dardani (German Dardaner) and Dardania were related to the Albanian word dάρδε̱ -α (“pear; pear-tree”), accusative dάρδε̱ -νε̱ (cf. modern dardhë (“pear; pear-tree”), stemming from Proto-Albanian *dardā).[1][2][3] This is suggested by the fact that toponyms related to fruits or animals are not unknown in the region (cf. Alb. dele/delmë "sheep" supposedly related to Dalmatia, Ulcinj in Montenegro < Alb. ujk, ulk "wolf" etc.).[4]

A common Albanian toponym with the same root is Dardha, found in various parts of Albania. Dardha in Puka is recorded as Darda in a 1671 ecclesiastical report and on a 1688 map by a Venetian cartographer, and is also the name of an Albanian tribe in the northern part of Dibër.[5]

Proper noun

Dardanī m pl (genitive Dardanōrum); second declension

  1. A Thraco-Illyrian tribe who inhabited a region in the Balkans.

Declension

Second-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Dardanī
Genitive Dardanōrum
Dative Dardanīs
Accusative Dardanōs
Ablative Dardanīs
Vocative Dardanī
Locative Dardanīs

References
  1. Johann Georg von Hahn, Albanesische Studien, 1854, p. 236 (in the 1. Heft)
  2. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary‎, Brill, →ISBN, page 56
  3. Wilkes, John (1992) The Illyrians‎, Wiley, →ISBN, page 244 "Names of individuals peoples may have been formed in a similar fashion, Taulantii from ‘swallow’ (cf. the Albanian tallandushe) or Enchelei the ‘eel-men’ and Chelidoni the ‘snail-men’. The name of the Delmatae appears connected with the Albanian word for ‘sheep’ ("delmë") and the Dardanians with for ‘pear’ ("dardhë")."
  4. Elsie, Robert (1998): "Dendronymica Albanica: A survey of Albanian tree and shrub names". Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 34: 163-200 online paper
  5. Elsie, Robert (2015) The Tribes of Albania: History, Society and Culture, London and New York: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 310
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