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brentaUntitled Comment

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Interesting. Flat top seems to be a very common name for mountains around the world. Is the name of this peak documented in Roman times?

BTW, the nominative is mons, not montus.
Posted Dec 3, 2004 5:04 am

maria grazia sUntitled Comment

maria grazia s

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Thanks, it's very kind by you to post this information.

Cheers.
Posted Dec 3, 2004 2:03 pm

maria grazia sUntitled Comment

maria grazia s

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Thanks Claude!!!
Posted May 18, 2005 12:27 pm

Claude MauguierUntitled Comment

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Marcel Kurz in "les Alpes valaisannes" vol. 1, still asks the question about the origin of such a name. This post would try to give a possible explanation.





Standing either on the Col du Gd St Bernard, or on the road of val d'Entremont, say between Orsières and Liddes, the shape of Mt Velan strikes immediately. Moreover, those who climbed it, know that one could arrange an entire football groundsite on the top (well, a bit lopsided as it slightly bends northward).





So its name could have been built with "uxello" (high, height), and "lan" (plain, flat), giving something like "uxellan", or "uhellan" (as theese consonants currently use to be "smoothed" as time goes by), i.e. "the flat height".


. The Romans, living thereafter in Aoste/a and Martigny had just to add "Montus"....and everybody forgot the old celtic signification. C.M.





Posted Dec 3, 2004 4:09 am

brentaUntitled Comment

brenta

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Interesting. Flat top seems to be a very common name for mountains around the world. Is the name of this peak documented in Roman times?

BTW, the nominative is mons, not montus.
Posted Dec 3, 2004 5:04 am

maria grazia sUntitled Comment

maria grazia s

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Thanks, it's very kind by you to post this information.

Cheers.
Posted Dec 3, 2004 2:03 pm

Claude MauguierUntitled Comment

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1/25000 "Mt Vélan", swiss CNS map n° 1366





books : Marcel Kurz/Maurice Brandt "Alpes valaisannes, vol I", éditions du C.A.S.


Guida dei Monti d'Italia, "Alpi Pennine", vol.I ed.CAI/TCI


Posted May 18, 2005 11:25 am

maria grazia sUntitled Comment

maria grazia s

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Thanks Claude!!!
Posted May 18, 2005 12:27 pm

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