No other of the destinations has prompted more contemplation of the latter delight than the great city of Trieste. Since I can never get my own prose to the level of a Joyce or a Stendhal, I will limit myself to some etymological reflections provoked by Trieste, specifically its name. The Slavic words and that Pannonian grave offer good evidence for the meaning of the terg- root behind the name of Trieste. In short, to call terg- an ancient Indo-European root more confidently, we need more Indo-European evidence for it. Was the terg- behind Trieste an ancient root meaning ‘market’ that formed part of the Venetic language’s Indo-European heritage?