Alisanos

Alisanos

In Gallo-Roman religion, Alisanos or Alisaunus was a local god worshipped in what are now the Côte-d'Or in Burgundy and at Aix-en-Provence. ["L'Arbre Celtique" entry for [http://www.arbre-celtique.com/approfondissements/divinites/inventaire-div/div_liste.php?nomdiv=Alisanus Alisanus] .]

The name may possibly be connected to Proto-Celtic *"alisā", meaning ‘alder’. [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf Proto-Celtic—English lexicon] and [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/MoE-PCl.pdf English—Proto-Celtic lexicon] . University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. (See also [http://www.wales.ac.uk/newpages/EXTERNAL/E4504.asp this page] for background and disclaimers.)] This apparent semantic connotation has led Dr. John Koch at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies to propose that this deity may originally have personified alder forests.Fact|date=October 2007

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