 The Rumantsch and Italian forms may likely have been taken from medieval written records, with the accent determined by analogy within the borrowing languages, e. g. "Turitg" after "amitg", ‘friend’, which bears its stress on the second syllable, too.The diverging evolution of several place names of Gaulish origin, as "Bourges" < "Bitúriges", "Berry" < "Bituríges"; "Condes" < "Cóndate", "Condé" < "Condáte", suggests that shifting accent and unsettled vowel quantity may not have been exceptional.On the then swamp area between Limmat and Lake Zurich around the present Sechseläutenplatz plaza, there were Neolithic pile dwellings which were set on piles to protect its inhabitants against occasional flooding by the rivers Sihl, Linth and Jona.