Illyrian Personal Anthroponyms

This article follows a previous publication dedicated to Venetic personal anthroponyms. In the present article, we investigate Illyrian personal anthroponyms from the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a continuously updated Latin inscription catalogue covering the Roman Empire period and its provinces. The Illyrian anthroponyms appear deeply latinised and graecised and the meaning of their roots was identified by comparing each one of them with corresponding lexemes in the present surviving Slavic languages. The result is that the Illyrian personal anthroponyms having Slavic roots is 45.93%, which permits to estimate that during the Roman Empire period, i.e. about five cen., roughly 46% of the Illyrian population had Slavic ascendancies. This high-lights that Slavs were already present in areas incorporated by the Roman Empire well before the VII cen. A.D. the date, according to the generally accepted theory, of the Slav late arrival in Europe. The logical consequence is that this theory is wrong and should be rejected.


Introduction
A great number of publications deal with the origins, the languages and the territories of the ancient Illyrians (I.). Because they did not left written documents, the conclusions of both classical and contemporary scholars concerning I. matters are normally divergent (Wilkes, 1992). In essence, it is possible to say that the entity constituted by the ancient I. is rather uncertain. The approach to acquire information about the I. through I. anthroponyms was object of some publications. One of them (Krahe, 1929) listed I. anthroponyms systematically according to their appearance in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (C.I.L.) Table 1 in the corresponding publication (Stein & Tomezzoli, 2020). Table 1 should be read bearing in mind the conventions of Table 2.

Discussion
The C.I.L. is a continuously updated Latin inscription catalogue covering the Roman Empire period and its provinces, therefore, it is not surprising that Table  1 I. anthroponyms are deeply latinised and graecized. The Slavic root for each I. anthroponym was identified by comparing it with corresponding lexemes in the present surviving Slavic languages (Table 2), this because ancient Slavic documents are rare (Ambrozic & Tomezzoli, 2003) (Ambrozic, 2005) (Ambrozic et al. 2006) (Šavli et al., 1996) (Serafimov, 2006) (Serafimov, 2007a) (Vodopivec, 2009b) and normally contain few lexemes, insufficient for meaningful comparisons with I. anthroponyms.

Initial Considerations
Similarly to what already observed in considering the V. anthroponyms (Stein & Tomezzoli, 2020), the following is observed.
The concept of nature is present in: T1.

Intermediate Considerations
Similarly to what already observed in considering the V. anthroponyms (Stein & Tomezzoli, 2020), the following is observed. T1.1 hell is linked to the ancient Gr. ᾍδης and indicates the underworld, a concept passed lately to the Christian tradition as hell.
T1.3 quick is linked to the hydronyms Adriatic: the sea facing the ancient I. territories, to Adrias/Atrianus: a no longer existing, ancient channel of the today Po river delta, mentioned by Hecateus, Theopompus and Ptolemy (Wikipedia, 2018) and to Jantra a today's Blg. river, tributary of Danube, which was named Athrys by the ancient Thracians.

Final Considerations
In said publication (Krahe, 1929), the I. anthroponyms total is 899 which represents a good sample for a statistical consideration. The I. anthroponyms in Table  1 having Slavic roots are 413 which represent 45.93% of the I. anthroponyms in said publication. The V. anthroponyms in Table 1 of the previous publication (Stein & Tomezzoli, 2020), having Slavic roots is roughly 24% of the V. anthroponyms in the corresponding publication (Pauli, 1891). This permits to estimate that during the Roman Empire period, i.e. about five cen., roughly 46% of the I. population and 24% of the V. population had Slavic ascendancies. This permits therefore to reply to the above question (Pigozzo, 2020) that ancient I. and V. were related through their Slavic ascendancies.

Conclusion
Said 46% of I. population and said 24% of V. population having Slavic ascendan-cies, during the Roman Empire period, highlight that Slavs were already present in areas incorporated by the Roman Empire well before the VII cen. A.D., the date, according to the generally accepted theory, of the Slav late arrival in Europe. The logical consequence is that this theory is wrong and should be rejected.