Discussiun:Tessin (flum)

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Pertge clamar il flum "Ticino" sche il chantun è "Tessin"?

Why call the river "Ticino" if the Canton is "Tessin"?

BrennodAloisi (talk) 10:01, 20 favrer 2021 (CET)

@BrennodAloisi:, this article was written back in 2008 by a user who was not a native Romansh speaker (in fact had a very limited grasp of Romansh), and has never been proof-read by a fluent Romansh speaker. So I wouldn't read too much into the title of the article...--Terfili (talk) 08:31, 21 favrer 2021 (CET)

@Terfili: Dictionaries say "Tessin" also, with tessinais -a as the adjective. Is it safe to then rename this "Tessin (flum)" and use the "Tessin" page to redirect to here and to Chantun Tessin? See Moesa. BrennodAloisi (talk) 03:42, 23 favrer 2021 (CET)

@BrennodAloisi:, yeah, I'll go ahead and do that. --Terfili (talk) 14:32, 23 favrer 2021 (CET)

Actually when you search the web for mentions of this river in Romansh, either "Tessin" or "Ticino" is used (but both are rare). I assume that this river just isn't know and talked about enough in Romansh-speaking areas, so some people keep the Italian name, others use "Tessin" (which really is just borrowed from German anyway). --Terfili (talk) 15:35, 23 favrer 2021 (CET)

@Terfili: I don't think it is just a German borrowing. Arpitan uses Tèssin; Lombard uses Tisin or Tesin; and Piedmontese uses Tesin. With loss of the -o like in the others, it makes sense for Romansh to come up with Tessin or similar. Plus that same Pleadri Grond dictionary has a historical name for Lugano, definitely not recently loaned from German or Italian: Ligiaun. BrennodAloisi (talk) 00:30, 24 favrer 2021 (CET)

I didn't know that BrennodAloisi, interesting. Perhaps the borrowing is the other way around then :) --Terfili (talk) 10:04, 24 favrer 2021 (CET)