Doubts on Irish Iubhar 'Yew Tree' and Eburacum or York
York, a cathedral city in the north of England, was the Eburacum or Colonia Eburacensis of Roman Britain. Its name has usually been explained from Irish iubhar ‘yew tree’ (or alternatively from Welsh efwr ‘hogweed’) and so ‘place where yew trees grow’; or else as containing the British(-Latin) perso...
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Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Voprosy Onomastiki |
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| Online Access: | http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/doi/10.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.3.040.pdf |