Danube

Betekenis (Engels)

Danube (a river in Europe; flowing 2850 kilometers from the confluence of the Breg and Brigach at Donaueschingen, Germany, into the Black Sea in Romania)

Concepten

Donau

Danube

Synoniemen

rive

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danau

Vertalingen

Danube

Donau

Danubio

Danubio

Danubi

Δούναβης

Danúbio

Danubius

دانوب

Danuvius

Tuna nehri

Danube River

Ister

Rio Danúbio

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelfrans: Danube

Overgenomen van Oudfrans: Danube

In summary

Inherited from Middle French Danube, from Old French Danube (att. since mid-12th c.), borrowed from Latin Dānubius, from Proto-Celtic *Dānowyos, an extended form of the river-name *Dānu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu (“river goddess”), akin to *dʰenh₂- (“to set in motion; to flow”).