Возможный фракийский гидроним – Бусур на территории племени трибаллов в восточной Сербии

Abstract

Топоним Бусур м. это ‘название деревни в 25 км к юго-западу от города Петровац на Млави в восточной Сербии’ и ‘название речки к юго-западу от Петровац на Млави в восточной Сербии, длиной 27 км, левого притока реки Млавы, на чьих берегах лежит одноименная деревня. По наименованию этой речки - деревня и получила название’.

The toponym and hydronym Busur is ‘the name of the village 25 km south-west of Petrovac na Mlavi in eastern Serbia’ and ‘the name of the river south-west of Petrovac na Mlavi in eastern Serbia, which is a 27 km long left tributary of the Mlava river, on the bank of which lays a village with the same name, being named after the river.’ Given that in ancient times Petrovac na Mlavi and its surroundings were inhabited by the Thracian tribe Triballi, we believe, according to the logic, that the river name Busur is of Thracian origin. This leads us to the presumed proto-Thracian form *Bruzásuras, which would consist of two Thracian words: bruzаs «fast», and suras „flow, river“, which make a compound name ‘fastflowing current, fast-fl owing river’, confirmed in the Thracian onomastica as the personal name Bruzas (Greek Βρυζος) ‘approx. ‡Swift’ and the name of the fortress on the Haemus Mountains/Stara planina Suras (Greek Σουρας) after certain (adjacent) ‘flow, river’ with the name Suras, or, on the other side, in the Thracian name of the small town of Nea Malgara in the Greek part of Thracia *Surakella (Latin Syracella, Greek *Συρακελλη) meaning ‘(?) water spring, river spring’. This proto-Thracian form would have evolved by Thracian syncope (ejection) of the middle -а-, assimilation zs > ss and dissimilation r : r > ø : r into Thracian form *Bússuras, which would have been in Latin *Bússurus, from where the following might have come – Balkan Romance form *Búsur(u), Slavic *Бу̏суръ, Old Serbian *Бу̏сурь, and finally Serbian Бу̏сур.