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The Dumnonii or Dumnones were British who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period. They were bordered to the east by the Durotriges. ==Etymology== William Camden, in his 1607 edition of ''Britannia'', describes Cornwall and Devon as being two parts of the same 'country' which: Camden had learnt some Welsh during the course of his studies and it would appear that he is the origin of the interpretation of Dumnonii as "deep valley dwellers" from his understanding of the Welsh of his time. John Rhys later theorized that the tribal name was derived from the name of a goddess, ''Domnu'', probably meaning "the goddess of the deep".〔Rhys, John (1892) ''Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom''. London: Williams and Norgate; p. 597〕 The proto-Celtic root *dubno- or *dumno- meaning "the deep" or "the earth" (or alternatively meaning "dark" or "gloomy"〔Xavier Delamarre, ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise'', Errance, Paris, 2003〕) appears in personal names such as Dumnorix and Dubnovellaunus. Another group with a similar name but with no known links were the Fir Domnann of Connacht. The Roman name of the town of Exeter, ''Isca Dumnoniorum'' ("Isca of the Dumnonii"), contains the root '' *iska-'' "water" for "Water of the Dumnonii". The Latin name suggests that the city was already an ''oppidum'', or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50. The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as ''Dewnans'' in Cornish and ''Dyfnaint'' in Welsh. Amédée Thierry (''Histoire des Gaulois'', 1828), one of the inventors of the "historic race" of Gauls, could confidently equate them with the Cornish ("les Cornouailles"). Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dumnonii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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