Venetic Personal Anthroponyms

Our investigation has been conducted on a set of 854 Venetic personal anthroponyms from the area corresponding to the today’s Veneto/Friuli and areas around, derived from the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum a continuously updated Latin inscription catalogue covering the Roman Empire period and its provinces. The Venetic anthroponyms appear deeply Latinised and the root of each Venetic personal anthroponym was identified by comparing it with corresponding lexemes in the present surviving Slavic languages. It results that the Venetic personal anthroponyms having sure Slavic roots in the set is 23.89% of the derived Venetic personal anthroponyms, which permits to estimate that during the Roman Empire period, i.e. about five cen., roughly about 24% of the Venetic population had Slavic ascendancies. This highlights that Slavs were already present in the today’s Veneto/Friuli and in said areas around well before the Roman Empire period and the VII century A.D. of the generally accepted theory of the Slavs late arrival in Europe. The logical consequence is that this theory is wrong and should be rejected.

ceased to be in the possession of another very ancient tribe called the Veneti, differing slightly from the Gauls in customs and costume and speaking another language. About these people the tragic poets tell many marvellous stories." (Polybius, 2016: II.17.5-6). In our opinion, the expression "very ancient tribe" is a clear indication that this Veneti tribe was considered an autochthonous population of the northern Italy. The expression "speaking another language" is an indication that Veneti were a people distinguished from the Celts.
On the basis of information acquired by Meandrius, Veneti, named Eneti, al-lied to the Trojans, migrated from Paphlagonia to the North Adriatic Sea, after the Troy fall (Strabo, 1903: XII.3.25). Meandrius's information contains certainly something of true, but most probably Veneti/Eneti came to North Italy not by chance, but seeking refuge by their relatives. In fact, it is possible that the autochthonous Veneti (Polybius, 2016: II.17.5-6) inhabited the North Adriatic region before the Trojan War.
Venetic anthroponyms can be encountered in some publications (Pellergini& Prosdocimi, 1967;Šavli, Bor, & Tomažič, 1996) which do not deal with them in a systematic way. Exception is a publication (Pauli, 1891) in which they are listed systematically according to their appearance in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). However, this last publication does not consider their etymology.

Venetic Personal Anthroponyms
The above mentioned publication (Pauli, 1891 In our analysis, said V. anthroponyms were considered one by one and only those having sure Slavic roots were retained in alphabetic order in Table 1 together with four other CIL. anthroponyms, indicated by * in Table 1, not recognized as V. in said publication but having sure Slavic roots. Table 1 comprises the progressive record number (Re.), the V. anthroponyms (V. Anth.) sharing the same Slavic root, the corresponding root meaning (R. Mean.), the corresponding lexemes in present surviving Slavic languages (Sl. Lexem.) from which the root meaning was inferred, the respective CIL. (CIL) entry and the page (Page) in said publication where each V. anthroponym resides. Records with CIL. entries more than the numbers of the V.

Final Considerations
In said publication (Pauli, 1891), the V. anthroponyms in the area corresponding to the today's Veneto/Friuli are 211 and in said areas around are 643 for a V.
anthroponym total of 854 which represents a good sample for a statistical consideration. The V. anthroponyms in Table 1

Conclusion
Said 24% of Venetic population having Slavic ascendancies, in the today's Veneto/Friuli and said areas around during the Roman Empire period, highlights that Slavs were already present in the today's Veneto/Friuli and in said areas around well before the Roman Empire period and the VII century A.D. of the generally accepted theory of the Slavs late arrival in Europe. The logical consequence is that this theory is wrong and should be rejected.