Deorwente
Old English edit
Etymology edit
Of Brythonic origin, possibly from Proto-Brythonic *Deruentiū (found in Latin as Deruentiō), meaning "forest of oak trees," from *dar (“oak”).[1] Alternative Brittonic origin suggests a compound corresponding to modern Welsh dŵr (“water”) + gent (“clear”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Deorwente f
- Derwent (a river in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria and County Durham)
Declension edit
Declension of Deorwente (weak)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Deorwente | — |
| accusative | Deorwentan | — |
| genitive | Deorwentan | — |
| dative | Deorwentan | — |
Descendants edit
- English: Derwent
References edit
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, 2nd ed., Editions Errance, Paris, 2003, p. 141
Further reading edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Deorwente”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.