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See [Brozović-Rončević, Old-European hydronymy](https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/clanak/255845)." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definition tradition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named author's definition, publication date and explicit inclusion criteria", "why_it_matters": "Different uses of Old European may imply different corpora and historical claims." }, { "name": "Corpus membership assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, proposed, supported under stated criteria, disputed, excluded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents candidate names from becoming established examples through repetition." }, { "name": "Attestation anchor", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Name form linked to source passage, textual witness, date range and identified water feature", "why_it_matters": "Makes the linguistic evidence recoverable and distinguishes evidence from reconstruction." }, { "name": "Earliest secure attestation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Year or date interval in BCE/CE, with dating basis and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Constrains documented use without treating the first surviving record as the naming event." }, { "name": "Proposed morphological analysis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attested form linked to proposed root, suffix, ending and alternative segmentations", "why_it_matters": "Allows recurrent naming patterns to be tested without assuming the segmentation is correct." }, { "name": "Sound correspondence assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Untested, regular under specified reconstruction, dependent on additional assumptions, contradicted", "why_it_matters": "Separates historical comparison from resemblance between modern spellings." }, { "name": "Geographical coverage", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Candidate distribution linked to drainage basins, historical language areas and surveyed regions", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an inferred historical distribution from the geography of available research." }, { "name": "Transmission mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Proposed inheritance, borrowing, phonological adaptation, translation, name transfer, replacement, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Different transmission histories can produce similar present-day distributions." }, { "name": "Historical interpretation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claim linked to proponent, linguistic attribution, chronological assumptions, supporting evidence and objections", "why_it_matters": "Keeps corpus observations separate from claims about languages and prehistory." } ], "affordances": [ "Evaluate a candidate hydronym against a named definition and record a provisional inclusion or exclusion.", "Trace modern forms to historical witnesses while preserving uncertain identifications and textual variants.", "Compare proposed root and suffix families using explicit sound correspondences and alternative analyses.", "Map candidate patterns by drainage basin and historical language area while exposing uneven coverage.", "Compare historical explanations and identify evidence that would discriminate between them.", "Revise corpus membership or interpretation when a new attestation, reidentification or linguistic objection changes the argument." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain Krahe's theory of Old European hydronymy and later revisions, citing scholarly sources.", "Present competing views on the age and language of the river names." ], "must_not": [ "Present the theory as proven or the proposed reconstructions as attested words.", "Use the hypothesis to claim that one modern nation or ethnic group has a prior right to land.", "Invent river names or etymologies.", "Hide that the theory is contested." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing an etymology used in a heritage or territorial claim." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Ancient-origin theories have been abused for nationalist and racial claims.", "Scholarly uncertainty should be shown, not hidden." ], "affected_parties": [ "Scholars and students", "Communities whose heritage is described" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the hypothesis; historical linguists study it.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Old European hydronymy is studied in historical linguistics and onomastics when comparing recurrent patterns in European river names.", "Researchers use the proposed stratum to investigate ancient naming traditions and competing accounts of language history.", "Membership depends on linguistic argument and historical attestations rather than the modern location of a river alone." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Treating a proposed linguistic stratum as settled history can spread unsupported claims about ancient languages.", "Inferring ancestry or territorial entitlement directly from river names can support misleading ethnic or political narratives.", "Ignoring alternative etymologies and changes in recorded spellings can produce false connections between names." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No specific binding standard or official classification governs membership in this proposed historical linguistic stratum.", "recognition": "This reconstructed linguistic category cannot be identified through visual appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q439987: Old European hydronymy", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q439987", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Old European hydronymy", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_European_hydronymy", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hydronymic-construct-and-membership", "name": "Hydronymic construct and membership", "description": "Establish what Old European means in the analysis and which water names the definition admits.", "rationale": "A corpus cannot be evaluated consistently if its membership silently shifts between scholarly traditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition-and-tradition", "name": "Definition and tradition", "description": "Locate the adopted meaning within the history of the hydronymic proposal.", "findings": [ { "id": "adopted-old-european-definition", "name": "Adopted Old European definition", "description": "Record whether the analysis concerns an observed naming pattern, a reconstructed stratum or a proposed language, and identify the source defining that usage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does Old European designate in the adopted account: a corpus, a naming stratum, a linguistic hypothesis or some explicitly stated combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "adopted-old-european-definition-q01" }, { "text": "Which publication defines this usage, and how does it position itself relative to Krahe's proposal?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "adopted-old-european-definition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "candidate-inclusion", "name": "Candidate inclusion", "description": "Make inclusion and exclusion decisions inspectable at the level of individual names.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-argument", "name": "Membership argument", "description": "Require an explicit argument linking a candidate to the proposed hydronymic pattern, with competing local explanations and exclusion reasons retained.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which attested forms, morphological parallels and sound correspondences justify assigning this name to the proposed stratum?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "membership-argument-q01" }, { "text": "Could a historically attested local naming process explain the name, and how would that affect its membership under the adopted definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "membership-argument-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "water-name-attestation-and-continuity", "name": "Water-name attestation and continuity", "description": "Establish which forms are documented, what they name and how they relate through time.", "rationale": "A convincing comparison can fail if a spelling is corrupt or an ancient name has been assigned to the wrong river.", "layers": [ { "id": "textual-witnesses", "name": "Textual witnesses", "description": "Separate source readings from editorial normalization and linguistic reconstruction.", "findings": [ { "id": "recoverable-name-form", "name": "Recoverable name form", "description": "Preserve the source spelling, language, textual witness, source location and relevant dating uncertainties.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where can the earliest secure form be read, and is the cited spelling a witness reading, an editorial emendation or a normalized transcription?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recoverable-name-form-q01" }, { "text": "What dates apply to the account and its surviving witness, and what interval can securely be assigned to the recorded name?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recoverable-name-form-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "referent-and-name-transmission", "name": "Referent and name transmission", "description": "Assess continuity between named water features and successive linguistic forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "watercourse-identification", "name": "Watercourse identification", "description": "Link each historical name to a justified feature or river segment and distinguish continuity from renaming or transfer. Ancient and modern names need not correspond one-to-one; see [Peust, How Old Are the River Names of Europe?](https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/download/1749/2969?inline=1).", "questions": [ { "text": "What geographical or textual evidence identifies the named feature, including whether the source names a whole river or only a segment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "watercourse-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Do successive forms represent transmission of one name, concurrent alternative names, replacement or transfer from another feature?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "watercourse-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hydronymic-linguistic-patterns", "name": "Hydronymic linguistic patterns", "description": "Test proposed relationships between names through morphology, sound history and meaning.", "rationale": "The proposed stratum requires defensible recurring structures, not merely collections of similar-looking names.", "layers": [ { "id": "roots-and-name-formations", "name": "Roots and name formations", "description": "Evaluate proposed roots, suffixes and the formation of complete names.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-segmentation", "name": "Supported segmentation", "description": "Record alternative analyses and evidence that apparent suffixes belong to name formation rather than later inflection or adaptation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What independently supports the proposed root and suffix boundaries in the earliest recoverable forms?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-segmentation-q01" }, { "text": "Could the apparent suffix instead be an inflectional ending, a scribal convention or an addition in a later receiving language?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "supported-segmentation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sound-history-and-meaning", "name": "Sound history and meaning", "description": "Assess whether proposed comparisons explain phonological development and naming semantics.", "findings": [ { "id": "testable-etymological-comparison", "name": "Testable etymological comparison", "description": "Specify reconstructed inputs, sound changes and semantic evidence; treat broad water-related meanings as hypotheses requiring support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sound correspondences connect the proposed relatives, and what assumptions about laryngeals, vowel development or borrowing are required?", "kind": "definition", "id": "testable-etymological-comparison-q01" }, { "text": "What independent lexical or contextual evidence supports the proposed meaning rather than a meaning inferred solely because the word names a river?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "testable-etymological-comparison-q02" }, { "text": "Which contradictory forms or alternative etymologies should trigger revision of the comparison?", "kind": "action", "id": "testable-etymological-comparison-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-chronology-and-explanation", "name": "Distribution, chronology and explanation", "description": "Relate hydronymic patterns to space and time while keeping competing historical interpretations explicit.", "rationale": "Even a credible name comparison does not independently establish one prehistoric language, date or population.", "layers": [ { "id": "spatial-and-temporal-constraints", "name": "Spatial and temporal constraints", "description": "Assess the observed distribution and independently justified chronological limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-distribution-and-age", "name": "Bounded distribution and age", "description": "Distinguish mapped evidence from research coverage and distinguish dates of attestation, transmission and proposed formation.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the distribution of supported candidates change when mapped by drainage basin, historical language area and intensity of documentation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-distribution-and-age-q01" }, { "text": "Which sound changes, dated borrowings or attestations constrain formation and transmission, and which proposed dates lack an independent anchor?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-distribution-and-age-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-historical-accounts", "name": "Competing historical accounts", "description": "Compare explanations of recurrent names without converting linguistic attribution into population identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "discriminating-evidence", "name": "Discriminating evidence", "description": "Represent shared inheritance, multiple naming periods, borrowing and substrate proposals as attributable accounts with explicit predictions and objections.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence would distinguish a shared Indo-European naming inheritance from later diffusion, independent formations or a proposed non-Indo-European substrate?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "discriminating-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional attestation, regional survey or linguistic comparison would most directly test the competing accounts?", "kind": "action", "id": "discriminating-evidence-q02" }, { "text": "What independent evidence would be needed before connecting a hydronymic pattern to an archaeological population or migration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "discriminating-evidence-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The existence of recurrent naming patterns should be distinguished from agreement about their linguistic origin, chronology or historical explanation.", "A researcher should check individual names against their earliest attestations and specialist etymological analyses before assigning them to this layer.", "This is a recall-based description; no sources were consulted, and no dedicated identifier or formal classification code is asserted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Old European hydronymy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Investigating linguistic layers preserved in river names.", "Comparing recurrent roots and name-forming suffixes across European drainage systems.", "Testing hypotheses about prehistoric language contact and the distribution of Indo-European languages." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Old European hydronymy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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Old European hydronymy is a proposed body of naming evidence whose relationship to that language and its descendants requires argument." }, { "name": "Old Europe", "difference": "The archaeological concept associated with Marija Gimbutas concerns prehistoric southeastern European societies; Krahe's hydronymic concept concerns linguistic patterns in water names." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Old European hydronymy this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which scholarly definition and reference corpus should govern this registry entry, and should it encompass several explicitly distinguished uses of Old European?", "Which proposed root and suffix families remain supported after checking early attestations, alternative segmentations and explicit historical sound correspondences?", "Does the surviving evidence require one coherent naming stratum, or can multiple periods, languages and transmission processes account for the patterns?", "What chronological limits can be established independently of assuming the linguistic affiliation that the names are being used to demonstrate?", "How much of the proposed geographical pattern reflects uneven documentation, selective inclusion and differences between major rivers and smaller water features?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 23 } }