Welsh Dawn ‘Gift’ and Doncaster, Yorkshire

Doncaster, known to the Romans as Danum, is a town on the River Don, Yorkshire. Its British-Latin name (deriving from that of the river) has been obscure: although interpretations ‘wet’ or ‘bold’ or ‘flowing’ have been proposed from alleged parallels with the Danube, Dnieper, Don, or Rhône of the Eu...

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Main Author: Andrew Breeze
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2018-11-01
Series:Вопросы ономастики
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Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/doi/10.15826/vopr_onom.2018.15.3.037.pdf