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I have asked the same question on r/etymology where they recommended me to ask more linguistics related subs. This dont allow me to post link but you will find it easily in it with details in the post.

Eastern Tuscany. Casentino, in the mountains.

Name of a small piece of chestnut woods called Tarchiona [taɾˈcoːna]/[taɾˈkjoːna]. It is an oral only name, no written records like basically all others here.

I found a strong link to Etruscan names and toponyms like Tarchuna (city of Tarquinia), Tarchna (noble family) and Tarchon (deity IIRC). Just a vowel change.

No latin origin for sure and not longobard either. Only origins of words and toponyms here.

Eastern Tuscany, Casentino. Usually the etymology is from latin, local dialect or longobard. A lot of prelatin roots too in this zone too.

This place, ordinary nothing of note, called [taɾˈcoːna] or [taɾˈkjoːna] depends on the person, for me is the former. I found an extremely strong link to Etruscan Tarchon, Tarchna and Tarchuna. The [χ] becominɡ an occlusive in postvocalic position, and then [c] as a much later palatisation before i/e/j vowels, is not far fetched.

Probably is much simpler in reality and from latin or whatever, but it is interesting. All the ones not related to nature or people or terrain form, a few dozens, actually derive too from terrain forms just from latin and longobard.

This is the only toponym in which i found a clear prelatin origin out of 250+. About 20 are still obscure to me.

An help on this one is appreciated, i have found several possibilities but feel like none the true one. Aiotini [aˈjɔːtini]. Could be simply from lat. area or areola, but being woods and not cultivated areas dont fit, could be related to a Longobard personal name or i found similar names in the appennine with aj- and -ot- being prelatin roots linked to woods.

Context:

Isolated village in the mountains, eastern tuscany. People lived exclusively of chestnuts until the 1960s, so pieces of land in the woods have hundreds of toponyms, unknown to everybody but the owners usually.

You can probably divide the names etymology in 4 categories: from the name of an owner, from plants or animals names, from the conformatiin of terrain, and unknown.

Place name is called "le gadine", where le is plural feminine article. [ɡaˈdiːne].

Not related to the terrain form, or plants or animals. I think from a Longobard word. Most words in my dialect are either from latin, longobard, and some older unknown roots from Etruscan likely.