Дон
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Macedonian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Дон • (Don) m (relational adjective донски)
Russian
Etymology
Old East Slavic Донъ (Donŭ), perhaps from Avestan 𐬛𐬁𐬥𐬎 (dānu, “river”), from Proto-Iranian *dānu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHnu, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂nu.
Cognate with Ukrainian Дін (Din), Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs), Ossetian дон (don, “river”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Дон • (Don) m inan (genitive До́на, relational adjective донско́й)
- Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, Russia) running from north to south down into the Azov Sea through Rostov and Voronezh. The home of the Don Cossacks
Declension
References
- Vasmer, Max (1950). Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German). Heidelberg: Carl Winter.