History of Dor. 33 



able, therefore, that the initial consonant of Dora was, occasionally 

 at least, changed to emphatic t, giving the form Tora. When later 

 the tantur-shaped ruined tower became the dominant feature of the 

 landscape, the chance resemblance between the words Tora and 

 tantur may have suggested to some native punster the appropriate- 

 ness of applying the name Tantiira to the ruins of Tora. Subse- 

 quently the inhabitants of the native tow^n adopted the new name* — 



The feminine ending of S^^h^io is doubtless derived from the Ara- 

 maic determinative ending ^{T '. 



^ Compare the adoption of the reproachful term ''Christians" by the 

 early church. 

 2 Supra, p. 17. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XX. 3 1915. 



► 



