Étymologie : 

* Eilert Ekwall : "Reculver K [Regulbium c 425 ND, Reculf mynster 669 ASC, Racuulfe c 730 Bede, Reaculfe c 890 OE Bede, Ricuulfi c 765 BCS 199, aet Raeculfo 825 BCS 384, Roculf DB, Raculvre 1276 Ch]. Many more OE forms are on record. The name has been derived from an OBrit word for 'beak, bill' (found in Welsh gylf and cognate with Olr gulba 'beak, point' ; OBrit gulba or gulbia) with a prefix corresponding to Lat prae or pro, the name meaning 'promontory'. IG p always disappears in Celtic. This is probably in the main correct, though the curious fact that g appears as OE c remains unexplained. Possibly the prefix was one that ended in k (cf. Welsh rag, OW rac 'before, against') or s (cf. Greek pres-). After k or s, Brit g would become k. The final -er is a late addition. Jackson takes the name to contain the prefix ro- (from pro-) in the sense 'great', the meaning being 'great headland'.

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* Rivet & Smith : 

- Notitia Dignitatum XXVIII,8 (pictura) : REGULBI;

- Notitia Dignitatum , XXVIII,18 (text): Tribunus cohortis primae Baetasiorum, REGULBIO

DERIVATION. The name is a compound of British *ro- 'great' (a prefix, strictly *rao-, rendered in Latin as heard or adapted by Latin speakers, re-, a common prefix) and *gulbio- 'beak', metaphorically 'headland'. On this and on the development to Reculver see Jackson LHEB 559, with discussion of views of Förster and Ekwall, 661, etc.; this development is not without problems, and the persistence of unlenited g- and -b- suggest an early adoption of the name in Anglo-Saxon, before British lenition and perhaps before the Anglo-Saxon occupation of Kent. Derivatives and cognates of *gulbio- cited by Jackson and by Dottin LG 261 include Gaulish gulbia 'bec' in texts of Vegetius and Isidore, Old Irish gulba and Middle Welsh gylf 'beak', and Breton golvan 'passereau'. See also Pokorny in Vox Romanica, x (1949), 263-64. There seem to be no other examples of the use of the word in ancient toponymy. The attempt of D.A  White (citing Taylor and Haig) in Litus Saxonicum (Madison, 1961), 80-81, to avoid the seeming difficulties on Celtic etymon by proposing to derive Reculver from germanic personal name Raculf is not to be entertained".

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman fort at Reculver, Kent (TR 2269)

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* A.D Mills : Regulbium, c. 425, Roculf, 1086 (DB). Un ancien nom celtique signifiant 'cap important'.

Sources : 

* Eilert Ekwall : The concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. 4è édition. Clarendon Press. 1936-1980.

* Frank W. Jessup : A history of Kent. Phillimore. 1974-1978.

* Department of the Environment : Reculver. 1977 

* A.L.F Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. 1979-1982 

* Stephen Sscoffham : The Romans in East Kent. North Kent Books. 1982.

* A.D Mills : Oxford Dictionary of Brirish Place Names. Oxford University Press. 1991-2003

Liens électroniques des sites Internet traitant de Reculver / Regulbium :

* lien communal officiel : 

* forum du site Marikavel : Academia Celtica

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