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Ripuarian Franks (Latin: ''Ripuarii'') were one of the two main groupings of early Frankish people mentioned by a number of 6th-century sources. The Ripuarii lived on the Rhine in what is today northern Germany, and they crossed the Rhine as they grew in power. The other main group of Franks were the Salii, or "Salian Franks", who lived to the west of the Ripuarii in what is today the Netherlands and Belgium, crossing the Rhine into the area of the modern Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limburg. The division of the Franks into Ripuarians and Salians would have taken place in the later Roman Empire. By the time the Ripuarians are mentioned in the historical record, they had already lost their independence to the expanding power of the Merovingians, but they seem to have kept a separate identity within the Frankish empire until at least the 7th century, when their traditional laws were recorded as the ''Lex Ripuaria''. ==Name== The name ''Ripuarii'' clearly has a meaning of "river people", but the exact origin of the name is unclear. The regular Latin form would be ''Riparii'', meaning "() of the river bank"; the Ripuarian Franks are so called by Jordanes. Other attested forms of the adjective are ''Riparenses'' and ''Riparienses''. The form ''Ripuarii'' is irregular, however, and has been explained by a hypothetical native (Germanic) name underlying the Latin. This hypothetical self-designation might be restored as either '' *hreop-waren'', '' *hrepa-waren'' "river() people".〔; ; corresponding to an Anglo-Saxon word, ''hreopseta'', "settlement on a bank (or river)." The ''-waren'' would be from Germanic *weraz, "people" 〕 or '' *hreop-wehren'', '' *hrepa-wehren'' "river() defenders".〔The -wehren would be from Germanic *warjan, "defend," 〕 Conversely, the form ''Ripuarii'' may also be due to a loan of the Latin ''Riparii'' into Germanic. This view is based on a word-pair given in the ''Summarium Heinrici'', an 11th-century revision of Isidore of Seville, stating the Old High German equivalents of some Latin words, including ''Ripuarii: Riphera''. The latter is textually reconstructed to '' *ripfera'', except that "phonetically *ripf- cannot come from rip-;"〔 "Lautergesetzlich kann '' *ripf'' nicht aus ''rip'' entstanden sein."〕 A third possibility is that the name ''Ripuarii'' was a mixed word to begin with, perhaps '' *ripwarjoz''. It seems to be analogous to the later formation, ''Ribuarius'', in which Gallo-Roman '' *ribbar'' replaces Roman ''ripa''. From the Gallo-Roman came the French ''rive'', "bank," and a group of words based on it. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ripuarian Franks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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