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Dordogne
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English
river Q208174
Etymology
From en fr Dordogne.
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dordogne.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en Q3357en department in r/Nouvelle-Aquitaine southwestern c/France Périgueux.
en Q208174en long river in south-central and southwestern c/France emptying into the Gironde estuary, flowing through the dept:pref:also/Puy-de-Dôme,Corrèze,Lot,Dordogne,Gironde.
Translations
department
Arabic: ar دُورْدُونيي f durdunīy
Aragonese: an Dordonya f
Armenian: hy Դորդոն
Azerbaijani: az Dordon
Basque: eu Dordoina
Belarusian: be Дардонь f
Breton: br Dordogna f
Bulgarian: bg Дордон f
Catalan: ca Dordonya f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 多爾多涅 Duō'ěrduōniè
Chuvash: cv Дордонь
Danish: da Dordogne
Franco-Provençal: frp Dordogne f
French: fr Dordogne f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Dordonje
Galician: gl Dordoña f
Georgian: ka დორდონი
Greek: el Δορδόνη
Hindi: hi दोर्दोंग
Italian: it Dordogna f
Japanese: ja ドルドーニュ Dorudōnyu
Kazakh: kk Дордонь
Korean: ko ^도르도뉴주
Latin: la Dordonia f
Latvian: lv Dordoņa f
Lithuanian: lt Dordonė f
Lombard: lmo Dordogne f
Macedonian: mk Дордоња f
Marathi: mr दोर्दोन्य m
Occitan: oc Dordonha f
Piedmontese: pms Dordogna f
Portuguese: pt Dordonha f
Russian: ru Дордо́нь f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Дордоња f
Latin: sh Dordonja f
Slovene: sl Dordonja f
Spanish: es Dordoña f
Tajik: tg Дордон
Thai: th ดอร์ดอญ dòt-on
Ukrainian: uk Дордонь f
Venetan: vec Dordogna f
river
French: fr Dordogne f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Dordonje
Italian: it Dordogna f
Marathi: mr दोर्दोन्य f
Occitan: oc Dordonha f
Spanish: es Dordoña f
French
Etymology
Named after the river Dordogne, from fr la Duranius (named by Ausonius).
Folk etymology derives it from two mountain streams, Dor (shortened from fr mont fr d' fr or mountain of gold and dogne, from fr dord babbling, muttering (imitative) + fr aven river, though this may have influenced the spelling.
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Paris--Dordogne.ogg Paris
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Dordogne.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Dordogne.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-Dordogne.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Dordogne.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
fr ɔɲ 2
Proper noun
f
fr Dordogne Q3357,Q208174
Derived terms
fr Dordognais
fr 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