Dordogne

English

Etymology

From French Dordogne.

Proper noun

Dordogne

1. A department in southwestern France in Aquitaine.
2. A river that flows from south-central France into the Garonne.

Translations

department

• Arabic: دوردونيي f (durduniiy)
• 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 (Duōěrduōniè)

• 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)
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• Kazakh: Дордонь (Dordon)
• Korean: 도르도뉴주 (doreudonyuju)
• Latin: Dordonia f
• Latvian: Dordoņa f
• Lithuanian: Dordonė f
• Lombard: Dordogne f
• Macedonian: Дордоња f (Dordonja)
• Marathi: दोर्दोन m (dordona), दोर्दोन्य (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)
• Venetian: Dordogna f

river

• French: Dordogne (fr) f
• Italian: Dordogna f
• Marathi: दोर्दोन f (dordona)
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• Occitan: Dordonha f
• Spanish: Dordoña f

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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/

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Proper noun

Dordogne f

1. Dordogne (department)
2. Dordogne (river)

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