Dordogne
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Etymology edit
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Dordogne
- A department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Capital: Périgueux.
- A river that flows from south-central France into the Garonne.
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Etymology edit
Named after the river Dordogne, from Latin Duranius (named by Ausonius).
Folk etymology derives it from two mountain streams, Dor (shortened from mont d’ or (“mountain of gold”) and dogne, from dord (“babbling, muttering”) (imitative) + aven (“river”), though this may have influenced the spelling.
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Proper noun edit
Dordogne f
- Dordogne (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
- Dordogne (a long river in south-central and southwestern France)
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References edit
- Charnock, Richard Stephen (1859): Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names
- Siegel, William (1961): Early Europeans: Lapps, Alpines, Lesghians, Semites, Hamites, Guti, Kelto-Phoenicians, Satem Indo-Europeans and the Formation of the Kentum Group