Deorwente
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of Brythonic origin, possibly from Proto-Brythonic *Deruentiū (found in Latin as Deruentiō), meaning "forest of oak trees," from *dar (“oak”).[1] Alternative Brittonic origin suggests a compound corresponding to modern Welsh dŵr (“water”) + gent (“clear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Deorwente f
- Derwent (a river in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cumbria and County Durham)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Deorwente (weak)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Deorwente | — |
| accusative | Deorwentan | — |
| genitive | Deorwentan | — |
| dative | Deorwentan | — |
Descendants[edit]
- English: Derwent
References[edit]
- ^ Delamarre, Xavier, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, 2nd ed., Editions Errance, Paris, 2003, p. 141
Further reading[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Deorwente”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Categories:
- Old English terms derived from Celtic languages
- Old English terms derived from Brythonic languages
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Brythonic
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English proper nouns
- Old English feminine nouns
- ang:Rivers in Derbyshire, England
- ang:Rivers in England
- ang:Rivers in Yorkshire
- ang:Rivers in Cumbria, England
- ang:Rivers in County Durham, England
- ang:Places in Derbyshire, England
- ang:Places in England
- ang:Places in Cumbria, England
- ang:Places in County Durham, England
- Old English feminine n-stem nouns