Curious Gozitan place-names - Part III : revealing some of Wettinger’s unpublished Gozitan place-names

Abstract

In this article, some of the place-names from Godfrey Wettinger’s publication (Wettinger 2000) are analysed and explained. In his excellent book about Maltese and Gozitan place-names, Wettinger lists a total of almost five thousand headings or entries (toponyms) from the earliest sources he had researched throughout his academic career till the year 2000, when this book was published. In the introduction of this book, under the subsection ‘Comprehensiveness’, Wettinger states that ‘innumerable place-names have been missed in this work. Reasons are obvious. For one thing, it has not been possible to search all the possible sources of place-name documentation.’