Dordogne

English

Etymology

From French Dordogne.

Proper noun

Dordogne

2. A department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Capital: Périgueux.
4. A long river in south-central and southwestern France, emptying into the Gironde estuary, flowing through the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Corrèze, Lot, Dordogne and Gironde.

Translations

department

• Arabic: دُورْدُونيي f (durdunīy)
• Aragonese: Dordonya f
• Armenian: Դորդոն (hy) (Dordon)
• Azerbaijani: Dordon
• Basque: Dordoina
• Belarusian: Дардонь f (Dardónʹ)
• Breton: Dordogna f
• Bulgarian: Дордон f (Dordon)
• Catalan: Dordonya f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多爾多涅 / 多尔多涅 (Duō'ěrduōniè)

• Chuvash: Дордонь (Dordonʹ)
• Danish: Dordogne
• Franco-Provençal: Dordogne f
• French: Dordogne (fr) f
• Galician: Dordoña f
• Georgian: დორდონი (dordoni)
• Greek: Δορδόνη (Dordóni)
• Hindi: दोर्दोंग (dordoṅg)
• Italian: Dordogna f
• Japanese: ドルドーニュ (Dorudōnyu)
• Kazakh: Дордонь (Dordon)
• Korean: 도르도뉴주 (Doreudonyuju)
• Latin: Dordonia f
• Latvian: Dordoņa f
• Lithuanian: Dordonė f
• Lombard: Dordogne f
• Macedonian: Дордоња f (Dordonja)
• Marathi: दोर्दोन्य m (dordonya)
• Occitan: Dordonha f
• Piedmontese: Dordogna f
• Portuguese: Dordonha f
• Russian: Дордо́нь (ru) f (Dordónʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дордоња f

  Roman: Dordonja f

• Slovene: Dordonja f
• Spanish: Dordoña f
• Tajik: Дордон (Dordon)
• Thai: ดอร์ดอญ (dòt-on)
• Ukrainian: Дордонь f (Dordonʹ)
• Venetan: Dordogna f
• West Frisian: Dordonje

river

• French: Dordogne (fr) f
• Italian: Dordogna f
• Marathi: दोर्दोन्य f (dordonya)
• Occitan: Dordonha f
• Spanish: Dordoña f
• West Frisian: Dordonje

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁ.dɔɲ/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɲ

Proper noun

Dordogne f

1. Dordogne (a department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France)
2. Dordogne (a long river in south-central and southwestern France, emptying into the Gironde estuary, flowing through the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Corrèze, Lot, Dordogne and Gironde)

Derived terms

• Dordognais
• dordognais

References

• 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