What is the meaning of the name Troy/Ilios?

The great series of epic which is transcribed by Homer around 730 B.C.E. is called "Iliad" and means the "Epic of Ilios". The saga consists of 15 693 verses and the place where the events occur is called both "Ilios" (106 times ) and "Troy" (53 times). Ilios is mentioned mostly as "holy Ilios". The epithet "holy", however, is never used for Troy but it is described as a city with "beautiful walls", "solid towers", and "broad roads". Homeric scholars argue that that the name Troy is much older than Homer. Although the etymological meaning of Troy is yet unknown, some researchers think that the word is in Luwish (a dialect of Hittite spoken in western Anatolia ). The name "Ilios" however, is not the original version of this word. Large numbers of Homeric schoars think that the original word is "Wilios" and the latter "w" is dropped in Greek dialect (East Ionia) 450 years later.

Since there is two different name for the place where the war occured, these names should not be made up by Homer but that they aew historical names. In the Hittite texts dating from 1400 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., Troy has another name beside the name of Wilusija namely Taruisa. Hittitologists accept that these names are identical with the Troy/Ilios, located in the Northwest Anatolian Hisarlık/Asarlık Tepe.