Segodunum

Segodūnum is an old Celtic place name derived from Proto-Celtic *sego-dūno-, meaning "strong fortress".[1][2][3]

It can refer to the following locations:

Rodez, Aveyron, former town of the Ruteni in Aquitania[1]
Segedunum, Wallsend, England.[1]
Suin, Saône-et-Loire[1]
Syon Haute-Savoie[1]
Würzburg, Bavaria[1]

It may have Germanic counterparts in Swedish Fornsigtuna and Sigtuna, from Proto-Germanic *siga-tūna-, Old Norse Sigtún.[1][2]

References

Koch, John T. (2020). CELTO-GERMANIC Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West, p. 131
Entry Sigtuna in Svenskt ortnamnslexikon. Ed. Mats Wahlberg. Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Uppsala 2003.
The Place-Names of Roman Britain, pp. 452-3. A.L.F. Rivet & Colin Smith (1979). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03953-4

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