Deorwente

Old English

Etymology

Of Brythonic origin, possibly from Proto-Brythonic *Deruentiū (found in Latin as Deruentiō), meaning "forest of oak trees," from *dar (“oak”). Alternative Brittonic origin suggests a compound corresponding to modern Welsh dŵr (“water”) + gent (“clear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈde͜or.wen.te/, [ˈde͜orˠ.wen.te]

Proper noun

Deorwente f

1. Derwent (a county, a Yorkshire in Derbyshire, Cumbria and County Durham)

Declension

Weak n-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	Deorwente	—
accusative	Deorwentan	—
genitive	Deorwentan	—
dative	Deorwentan	—

Descendants

• English: Derwent

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Deorwente”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.