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  2. List of river name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Nossob: from Khoikhoi meaning "black river". Ohlanga: from Zulu meaning "reed". Olifants: from Afrikaans meaning "elephants". Omi Osun: from Yoruba meaning "waters of the spirit-goddess Ọṣun ". Orange: from Afrikaans "Oranje", meaning Orange, which was named after William V, Prince of Orange.

  3. Old European hydronymy - Wikipedia

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    In III A 2, "Etymology and Semasiology of the paleoeuropean river names", Krahe states that the oldest strata are composed by prerequisites of nature and that the river names especially refer to the water itself (rule 2), [1]: 60 and that words referring to humans and culture are newer. Both rules are important arguments for considering the old ...

  4. River of Love - Wikipedia

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    River of Love. " River of Love " is a song written by Billy Burnette, Shawn Camp and Dennis Morgan, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in November 2008 as the third single from the album Troubadour. The 87th single of his career, it is also his 80th Top Ten on the Billboard country charts, as well as ...

  5. Lists of etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Inventions named after people. Minerals named after people. Places and political entities named after people. Prizes named after people. Scientific constants named after people. Scientific laws named after people. Scientific phenomena named after people. Scientific units named after people. Sports terms named after people.

  6. Proposed Illyrian vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    This article contains information about Illyrian vocabulary. No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones), toponyms and river names—and Illyrian loanwords in other languages.

  7. River Avoca - Wikipedia

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    The village of Avoca is situated on the river. The Avoca flows into the Irish Sea at Arklow where it widens into a large estuary, giving Arklow its Irish language name an t-Inbhear Mór (the big inlet). [citation needed] The catchment area of the Avoca is 652 km 2. [2] The long term average flow rate of the Avoca is 20.2 cubic metres per second ...

  8. Strath - Wikipedia

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    In geology. In geology, a strath is a bedrock surface within a river valley that marks a base level of erosion by the river. This may underlie a contemporary strath valley floor, corresponding to the present base level, but it may also correspond to a former base level now preserved in the geologic record. [5]

  9. Hydronym - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A hydronym (from Greek: ὕδρω, hydrō, "water" and ὄνομα, onoma, "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a subset of toponymy, a distinctive discipline of hydronymy (or ...