Per l'etimologia e la storia dei bagaudi
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Bagaudae, Etymology, Gaulish, Indo-European, Dithematic CompoundsAbstract
The most widespread etymology of bagaudae, the name of rebel groups in late Roman Gaul, connects it to Old Irish bág ‘fight’ and to the IE root *bhē/ōgh- (IEW 115). There are, however, phonetic problems. The historical sources and the current historiographic research do not support an original meaning such as ‘fighters’. A morphological and semantic analysis (doubts about a suffix *-aud-, the connotations associated with the term bagaudae, its use in anthroponymy etc.) points to an old dithematic compound meaning ‘collector of goods (to be allotted)’ (cf. IEW 107 *bhag-; 75 *au(dh)-).
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