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The river was originally named Bakká, "Bank River", and then a farm nearby was named Bakkárholt, "Bank River Hill". The river was then later renamed after the farm as Bakkárholtsá, which translates to "Bank River Hill River" [4] Most river names in the Sundanese portion of Indonesia start with the prefix ci-, which is Sundanese for "river
Darling River: named for Sir Ralph Darling, Governor of New South Wales 1825–1831; Diamantina River: named for Lady Diamantina Bowen, wife of the first Governor of Queensland; Flinders River: named for Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer; Franklin River: named for Sir John Franklin, Governor of Tasmania 1836–1843
All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some rivers have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article provides known alternative names for all major European rivers.
The Vermilion River likewise was named with a translation of the original Ottawa name Ulam Thipi, 'red face paint river'. Piqua – Shawnee Pekowi, name of one of the five divisions of the Shawnee. Wapakoneta – from Shawnee Wa·po’kanite 'Place of White Bones' (wa·pa 'white'+(h)o’kani 'bone'+-ite locative suffix). [71] [72]
Brule River (from the Ojibwe name Wiisakode-ziibi "half-burned wood river", which was translated directly into French as Bois Brulé. Half of the river disappears into a pothole in the Judge C. R. Magney State Park). Calumet (named for the French word for peace pipe) [172] Cannon River (originally named rivière aux canots, "river of the canoes ...
The translated name North River was used in the New York metropolitan area up until the early 1900s, with limited use continuing into the present day. [7] The term persists in radio communication among commercial shipping traffic, especially below the Tappan Zee. [8]
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic 'danu' or 'don' [16] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *dehâ‚‚nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu.
River named after Laconia son of Lelex and Cleocharia or of Myles Evenus or Aetolia ; some accounts, a mortal son of Ares and either Demodice or Stratonice who flung himself to the river Lycormas Lycormas: Ganges India * Granicus Troad Haliacmon Macedonia Halys Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus