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Well, I do not think personally that Sorand could have been an invention because : - Surand is a living name. The etymology given for it is in Northern German, Danish, and Swedish languages : "topographic name for someone who lived by the seashore, from Middle Low German, Danish, Swedish strand...

Toponyms are PIE : - Soranda = tollan (and troy?). interestingly, we do have Sarandë in Albania, a really old town, located on the south of the country and close to the mediterranean sea. Albanian, while Indo-European, is an outlier of this language family. Other thing of interest : Alba means "...