Vienna Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Etymology== {{See also|Names of European cities in different languages: U–Z#V|Vindobona}} The place is mentioned as ''Οϋι[νδ]όβονα (Oui[nd]obona)'' in the 2nd century AD (Ptolemy, ''Geography'', II, 14, 3) ; ''Vindobona'' in the 3rd century (''Itinerarium Antonini Augusti'' 233, 8) ; ''Vindobona'' in the 4th century (''[[Tabula Peutingeriana]]'', V, 1) ; ''Vindomana'' ab. 400 (''[[Notitia Dignitatum]]'', 145, 16) ; ''Vindomina, Vendomina'' in the 6th century ([[Jordanes]], ''[[De origine actibusque Getarum]]'', 50, 264). The English name ''Vienna'' is borrowed from the homonymous Italian name. The German name ''Wien'' comes from the name of the river ''Wien'', mentioned ''ad UUeniam'' in 881 (''Wenia-'' in modern writing).<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Csendes |contribution=Das Werden Wiens – Die siedlungsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen |language=de |editor1-last=Csendes |editor1-first=Peter |editor2-first=F. |editor2-last=Oppl |title=Wien – Geschichte einer Stadt von den Anfängen zur Ersten Türkenbelagerung |publisher=Böhlau |location=Vienna |year=2001 |pages=55–94, here p. 57}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Pleyel |title=Das römische Österreich |publisher=Pichler |location=Vienna |year=2002 |isbn=3-85431-270-9 |page=83}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-first1=Martin |editor-last1=Mosser |editor-first2=Karin |editor-last2=Fischer-Ausserer |title=Judenplatz. Die Kasernen des römischen Legionslagers |language=de |series=Wien Archäologisch |volume=5 |publisher=Stadtarchäologie Wien |location=Vienna |year=2008 |page=11}}</ref> The name of the Roman settlement on the same emplacement is of Celtic extraction {{lang|la|[[Vindobona]]}}, probably meaning "white village, white settlement" from Celtic roots, ''vindo-'', meaning "white" (Old Irish ''find'' "white", Welsh {{lang|cy|gwyn}} / ''gwenn'', Old Breton ''guinn'' "white, bright" > Breton ''gwenn'' "white"), and ''-bona'' "foundation, settlement, village",<ref>{{cite web |title=Vienna |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Vienna&allowed_in_frame=0 |work=Online Etymology Dictionary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922014129/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Vienna&allowed_in_frame=0 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |access-date=18 May 2016}}</ref><ref name="Delamarre">[[Xavier Delamarre]], ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : une approche linguistique du vieux celtique continental'', éditions Errance, Paris, 2003, p. 82-319-320</ref> related to Old Irish ''bun'' "base, foundation" and Welsh ''bon'', same meaning.<ref name="Delamarre"/> The Celtic word ''vindos'' may reflect a widespread prehistorical [[Fionn mac Cumhaill#Etymology|cult of Vindos]], a Celtic [[deity]] who survives in [[Irish mythology]] as the warrior and [[Oracle|seer]] Fionn mac Cumhaill.<ref>Mac Cana, Proinsias. "Fianaigecht in the Pre-Norman Period". In: ''Béaloideas'' 54/55 (1986): 76. {{doi|10.2307/20522282}}. {{Cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20522282 |jstor=20522282 |title=Fianaigecht in the Pre-Norman Period |last1=Mac Cana |first1=Proinsias |journal=Béaloideas |year=1986 |volume=54/55 |pages=75–99 |doi=10.2307/20522282 |access-date=25 October 2022 |archive-date=5 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305221322/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20522282 |url-status=live }}.</ref><ref>FitzPatrick, Elizabeth; Hennessy, Ronan (2017). "Finn's Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland". In: ''Landscape History'', 38:2, 31. {{doi|10.1080/01433768.2017.1394062}}</ref> A variant of this Celtic name could be preserved in the [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] names of the city ({{lang|cs|Vídeň}}, {{lang|sk|Viedeň}}, {{lang|pl|Wiedeń}} and {{lang|uk|Відень}} respectively) and in that of the city's district [[Wieden]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Johanna |last=Haberl |title=Favianis, Vindobona und Wien, eine archäologisch-historische Illustration zur Vita S. Severini des Eugippius |language=de |publisher=Brill Academic |location=Leiden |year=1976 |isbn=90-04-04548-1 |page=125}}</ref> The name of the city in [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] ({{lang|hu|Bécs}}), [[Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]] ({{lang-hbs-Latn-Cyrl|Beč|Беч|label=none}}) and [[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]] ({{lang|ota|بچ|}}, ''Beç'') has a different, probably [[Slavic peoples|Slavonic]] origin, and originally referred to an [[Pannonian Avars|Avar]] fort in the area.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Vienna |volume=28 |page=52 }}</ref> [[Slovene language|Slovene]] speakers call the city {{lang|sl|Dunaj}}, which in other Central European Slavic languages means the river [[Danube]], on which the city stands. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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