Talk:Jura Mountains

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Some material has been copied and translated from this French language wiki. To comply with WP:CWW a link to the source article is placed here. It should be noted, however, that the source is uncited, and so the material should not be considered reliable. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 11:45, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article tells me really nothing about what I might see or visit in the Jura Mountains. What types of plants and animals live there? Are there villages? Roads? Footpaths? Is it cold? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.18.13.17 (talk) 13:05, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The etymology of the Iura mentioned in Caesar's De Bello Gallico and other ancient sources is entirely unclear and unresolved, and its derivation from a supposed Celtic etymon *jor- is basically just a conjecture from 1907 that was adopted by Georges Dottin in his 1920 edition of "La langue gauloise", but which nobody has really followed up on in modern studies because there is nothing to follow up on. Lacking any true linguistic cognate, linking it with a meaning "forest" or "forested hill" is the epitome of circular resoning, and it is no surprise that two out of three sources listed for the etymology are works of geology, not onomastics (the third one, unsurprisingly, is a geography book).

"Iura" is and remains an unexplained etymon, and no such lemma is listed in any modern Celtic dictionary. There definitely never was a form "iuria" or "juria", which someone seems to have pulled out of their arse in its entirety; it's absent from any ancient source. This may be a bit bold, but I am deleting what the article currently has to say on etymology and adding what I can say as a linguist. I have gone through several relevant dictionaries and come up empty. My last hope would be Xavier Delamarre, but his new edition of Celtic toponyms is ordered but hasn't arrived yet. Trigaranus (talk) 00:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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