In Celtic mythology, Adsullata was a river goddess, associated with the River Savus in the Balkans. A Celtic cross incorporating the Celtic knotwork motif associated with Celtic cultures Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic Polytheism the apparent religion of the Iron Age Celts. ... Sava also Save (German Save, Hungarian Száva) is a river in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, a right side tributary of Danube at Belgrade. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ...

Etymology of the name

The reconstructed lexis of the Proto-Celtic language as collated by the University of Wales (http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/pcl-moe.pdf ) suggests that the name is likely to be ultimately derived from the Proto-Celtic *Ad-sug-latā. This Proto-Celtic word connotes the semantics of ‘Absorbing Mud.’ This apparent semantic connotation has led Dr. John Koch at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies to propose that the original nature of this deity may well have been a personification of “water-absorbing mud ”. This theory would account for the deity’s associations with the River Sava. This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... Proto-Celtic, also called Common Celtic, is the putative ancestor of all the known Celtic languages. ... In general, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ...

Diachronic changes in the form of the name

Following the known laws of Celtic diachronic linguistics as elucidated by Marian B. Hughes at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, the Proto-Celtic name *Ad-sug-latā would have been inherited into Brythonic in the form of *Assullata or *Assuglata. . Historical linguistics (also diachronic linguistics or comparative linguistics) is primarily the study of the ways in which languages change over time, by means of examining languages which are recognizably related through similarities such as vocabulary, word formation, and syntax, as well as the surviving records of ancient languages. ... Brythonic is one of two major divisions of Insular Celtic languages (the other being Goidelic). ...