Re: The Origins of Zürich...


Brian M. Scott wrote:

that he loves puns

Must have missed that. As for Cossiniacus / Cossiniacum
on lake Lucerne (a reconstructed name): it turned into
Chussenacho (before 840), Cusenach (1036), Chüsnach,
Chussenacho (1190), Chiussenacho (1253), and later
into Küssnacht, which evokes a kissing night. Küsnacht
(with one s) on lake Zurich is presumably no Gallo-Roman
settlement but was founded by a noble family from
Cossiniacum / Küssnacht on lake Lucerne. I have no
comparable name list for Zurich, just Turicum Turegum.
The Idiotikon, wherein my language is kept, has not yet
arrived at the letter Z. I walk by the publishing house
of the Idiotikon almost daily, might one day go in and ask.
For the time being, Ziu rihi, as proposed by Heidi, is a
plausible candidate for a later Alemannic overforming,
and goes along fairly well with my hypothesis about the
oldest name of the recently discovered 5,000 years old
settlement on the hill whose top we call Lindenhof, place
of the later Roman castellum: TYR AC Turicum Turegum
.... Zürich Zurich.

Franz Gnaedinger

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