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The origin of the Illyrian tribe Selepitani by Andi Zeneli
Gjendet Koinon Salapitan ne Titus Livius, Historia e Romes, libri 45
Selepītānī, ōrum, m., peuple de l’Illyrie : Liv. 45, 26.
The name Selepitanii is the nominative plural in Latin of llyrian Salapitan the genitive plural of the name Salapia because it was a Hellenic Koinon. The name koinon requires the following noun to appear in plural genitive because koinon also is the Genitive plural of koine in Hellenic dialects.
Selepitani
The Selepitani (Latin: Selepitani) were an Illyrian tribe located below the Lake Scutari.
Koinon Selepitan from Sal-apia ‘salty water’ found in Apulia, a Messapic settlement in Italy.
1644. sal-
English : ‘salt; salty water’
German : ‘Salz, Seesalz’
Grammar : Nom. sal, sal-d-, sal-i, sal-u; Gen. sal-n-és
Derivative: salī-mo- ‘Salzwasser’
Material: Sanskrit sal-ilá- n. ‘sea, sea flood’ (‘*the salty one’), sal-ilá- ‘salty’; Armenian aɫ ‘salt’ (i-St.), aɫt (i-St.) ‘salt deposit, salt’, aɫi ‘salty’ (from which the river name ῞Αλυς is Hellenized);
Greek ἅλς, Gen. ἁλός m. ‘salt’, f. ‘salt flood, sea’, Dat. Pl. ἅλασι; Pl. ἅλες also ‘wit’, like Latin salēs, ἅλιος ‘marine’, ἀλιεύς ‘sailor, fisherman’; ἁλυκός ‘younger’, ἁλικός ‘salty’; stem ἁλι- always in composition ἁλι-πόρφυρος, ἁλι-μυρήεις (ἁλος-ύδνη contains the Gen. ἁλός); ἅλμη ‘sea water, saltiness, sharpness’ (from this ἁλμυρός ‘salty, bitter, sharp’); Albanian ngjelbëtë, ngjelmëtë ‘salty’, njelm ‘to be salty’ (-mo- as in Greek ἅλμη);
Illyrian ON Salapia (Apulia) to FlN *Sal-apa; Latin sāl, sălis m., old Latin also Nom. sale n. ‘salt’; Umbrian salu ‘salt’, perhaps also Latin insula as ‘ἡ ἐν ἁλὶ οὖσα’ (cf. Greek ἔναλος ‘being in the sea’).
Irish salann, Welsh halen, Cornish haloin, Breton c’hoalenn, holen (*salei-no-) ‘salt’; on *salī-mo- probably leads Welsh heli ‘sea’; Celtic river name Sala ‘Saale’, compare Saalach, tributary of the Salzach; Latvian sā̀ls (*sālis); Old Prussian sal is Polish Lw.; Lithuanian sālti ‘to become sweet, to become sour’, salià ‘sweetness’; Latvian sālīms, Lithuanian žemaitic sólymas m. ‘brine’ (= Welsh heli); Old Church Slavonic solь f. ‘salt’ (*sali-); Slavic *solnъ in Old Church Slavonic slanъ ‘salty’; Old Prussian saltan n. ‘bacon’, Slavic *soltь f. in Russian solotь ‘swamp’, Old Church Slavonic slatina ‘brine’, Serbian slativa ‘salt spring’, Czech slatina ‘bog’ etc.; Tocharian A sāle, B sālyiye ‘salt’.
with the d- of the Indo-European nominative singular n. *sal-d-: Illyrian ON Saldae (Pannonia), Thracian ON Salsovia (*sal-d-t-ou̯-); Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon salt, Old English sealt, Old High German salz ‘salt’; adjective Old Norse saltr, Old English sealt, Middle High German salzec, New High German salzig; with low grade Old Saxon sultia, Old High German sulza (*sultja) ‘salt water, pickled sausage’, New High German Sülze; Norwegian sylt f. ‘flooded seashore’ (but Middle High German sol, sul, New High German Sole ‘salty water’ are Slavic borrowings); Old English sealtan, Old High German salzan ‘to salt’ (otherwise weak verb Old English sieltan, Old Norse salta); Latin sallō, -ere ‘to salt’, participle salsus (*sald-to-) perhaps with present d-suffix; also Baltic Slavic *saldu- ‘sweet’ (‘*salted, *tasty’) could be formed from a verb: Lithuanian saldùs, Latvian salds, Slavic *soldъk in Old Church Slavonic sladъkъ, Polish słodki; without -d-: Lithuanian sąlù, sálti ‘to become sweet’, Eastern Lithuanian į̃salas, Latvian ìesals m. ‘malt’; the u-stem sal-u- is also evident from Baltic Slavic *saldu- as well as Greek ἁλυκός ‘salty’.
Salapia (also called Salpe and Salpi) is an ancient settlement and bishopric in Daunia, Italy near Cerignola and Manfredonia. The settlement was probably built for and named after the salt marsh - the ancient Lake Salpi is now Saline di Margherita di Savoia. Salapia is mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy and probably the "Elpia" of Strabo.
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 45
"It is the order of the senate and people of Rome that the Illyrians shall be a free nation. I shall withdraw my garrisons from all your towns, citadels and forts. The Issenses, the Taulantii, the Pirustae of Dassaretia, the cities of Rhizon and Olcinium, shall be not only free politically, but exempt from all tribute, because they revolted to the Romans whilst Gentius was still in power. Similar exemption is also granted to the Daorsei, because they deserted Caravantius and went over fully armed to the Romans. The people of Scodra, Dassara, and Selepetanis will have half the tribute imposed upon them that they paid to the king." He then announced a threefold division of Illyria. One has been mentioned already; the second comprised the whole country up to Lake Libeatus; the third included the Agravonites, the Rhizonites, the Olciniates and the settlers on their borders. After laying down this constitution for Illyria he returned to Passaron in Epirus for the winter. zqVXQbcb0Vc |