Some European river names
- From: "James Dalgleish" <jamesdal@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 Mar 2006 12:51:58 -0800
Why are there least two rivers in the UK called the Don, as well as
another entering the Black Sea along with the Danube, not to mention
the Dnieper and Dniester? If the former names are of Celtic origin and
the latter Iranian (the Danube could be either, I suppose), is there
any special connection between the two families beyond belonging to
Indo-European? I never heard there was. Is there a Proto-Indo-European
word from which these names are all derived such as the ancestor of
Sanskrit udan and Slavic *voda? Is the stress on the second syllable in
both cases, and if so, should they not be reconstructed to something
like *dan rather than *wod? Could the former also be the origin of
Gaelic tonn, Welsh ton, meaning a wave? Or is the origin of these river
names pre-Indo-European? I heard river names were among the oldest
place names.
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