Iguvium - Weblio 英和・和英辞典 (original) (raw)

語源

Borrowed from Umbrian �������������� (ikuvium), of uncertain origin; possibly from *���������������� (*pikuvium, “town of the woodpecker”), with loss of initial P, from ���������� (peika, “woodpecker”) << Proto-Italic *peikā << Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk-.

However, it could instead be from a pre-Etruscan, pre-Umbrian substrate (eastern Italic); compare Igilium.