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    Names and Etymology: Dānu. Other River Names From The Same Root

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    The Latin name for the Danube River, "Dānuvius", comes from a Proto-Indo-European root word meaning "fluid" or "drop" that is also the origin of several other European river names like the Don, Donets, Dnieper, and Dniester Rivers. In ancient languages like Sanskrit and Avestan, variants of this root word could mean "river". The Greek name for the Danube was "Istros", meaning "strong" or "swift", which was adopted into Latin as "Ister". Other ancient names for sections of the river included "Donaris" in Dacian/Thracian and "Matoas" meaning "the br

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    The Latin name for the Danube River, "Dānuvius", comes from a Proto-Indo-European root word meaning "fluid" or "drop" that is also the origin of several other European river names like the Don, Donets, Dnieper, and Dniester Rivers. In ancient languages like Sanskrit and Avestan, variants of this root word could mean "river". The Greek name for the Danube was "Istros", meaning "strong" or "swift", which was adopted into Latin as "Ister". Other ancient names for sections of the river included "Donaris" in Dacian/Thracian and "Matoas" meaning "the br

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    The Latin name for the Danube River, "Dānuvius", comes from a Proto-Indo-European root word meaning "fluid" or "drop" that is also the origin of several other European river names like the Don, Donets, Dnieper, and Dniester Rivers. In ancient languages like Sanskrit and Avestan, variants of this root word could mean "river". The Greek name for the Danube was "Istros", meaning "strong" or "swift", which was adopted into Latin as "Ister". Other ancient names for sections of the river included "Donaris" in Dacian/Thracian and "Matoas" meaning "the br

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    The Latin name for the Danube River, "Dānuvius", comes from a Proto-Indo-European root word meaning "fluid" or "drop" that is also the origin of several other European river names like the Don, Donets, Dnieper, and Dniester Rivers. In ancient languages like Sanskrit and Avestan, variants of this root word could mean "river". The Greek name for the Danube was "Istros", meaning "strong" or "swift", which was adopted into Latin as "Ister". Other ancient names for sections of the river included "Donaris" in Dacian/Thracian and "Matoas" meaning "the br

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    Names and etymology[edit]

    The Latin name Dnuvius is one of a number of "Old European" river names derived from a ProtoIndo-European*dnu. Other river names from the same root
    include Don, Donets, Dzvina/Duna, Dneiper and Dniestr. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, dnu means "fluid,
    drop", in Avestan, the same word means "river". In the Rigveda, Dnu once appears as the mother
    of Vrtra. It is possible that dnu in Scythian as in Avestan was a generic word for
    "river": Dniepr andDniestr, from Danapris and Danastius, are presumed to continue Scythian *dnu
    apara "far river" and *dnu nazdya-"near river", respectively.[1]
    The Greek name of the Danube was (Istros), a borrowing from a Daco-Thracian name
    meaning "strong, swift" (akin to Sanskrit iiras "swift").[2] In Latin, the Danube was variously known
    as Danubius, Danuvius or as Ister. The Dacian/Thracian name was Donaris/Donaris for the upper
    Danube and Istros for the lower Danube.[2] The Thraco-Phrygian name was Matoas,[3] "the bringer of
    luck".[4]
    The Latin name is masculine (as is the name of the Rhine). German Donau (Early Modern
    German Donaw, Tonaw,[5] Middle High German Tuonowe[6]) is feminine, as it has been re-interpreted
    as containing the suffix -ouwe "wetland".
    The modern languages spoken in the Danube basin all use names derived
    from Dnuvius: German: Donau ([dona ]; Bavarian: Doana, Yiddish: Duney [dnj]); Silesian:
    Dnaj; Upper Sorbian: Dunaj; Slovak: Dunaj ([dunaj]) Hungarian: Duna ([dun]); SerboCroatian: Dunav /
    ([dna] or [dna]);Romanian: Dunrea ([dunre a]); Romani: Dunaja ([dunaja]); Bulg
    arian: Dunav ([dunf]); Ukrainian: Dunai ([dunj]).

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