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dobur 'water',
Welsh Welsh dw[f]r,
Cornish dur,
Breton dour 'water'
Celtic *
dūnon 'fortress' >
Welsh dinas 'city' and din 'fortress',
Irish dún 'fortress'...
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Gaulish hill-fort
named Lug[o]
dunon,
after the
Celtic god
Lugus (cognate with Old
Irish Lugh,
Modern Irish Lú), and
dúnon (hill-fort). The
Romans recognised...
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Camulodunum is a
Latinised form of the
Brittonic Camulodūnon from
Camulos plus
dūnon "(hill)fort, stronghold", a
reference to the town's
extensive Iron Age earthwork...
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capital of the
Demetae tribe,
known as
Moridunum (from
Brittonic *mori-
dunon meaning "sea fort"), and this is the true
source of the town's name. Celticist...
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English calques or
variants of
native placenames,
including the
Brittonic *-
dunon and
Welsh caer, as at Salisbury.
Burhs were
originally built as military...
- Sorbiodūnum; the
first part was of
unknown origin,
although the
Brittonic suffix -
dūnon meant "fortress". The name
first recorded during the Anglo-Saxon era was...
- Nouiodūnon "new fort"
Olten – Ol(l)odūnonm "fort on the Olon river" Thun –
Dūnon Verdun – Uerodūnon "strong fort" Yverdon-les-Bains – Eburodūnon "yew fort"...
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Iverni Manapii Nagnatae Robogdii Uellabori Uennicnii Uodiae Uoluntii Towns Dunon Eblana Iuernis Labiros Makolikon Manapia Nagnata Raiba Regia Regia Etera...
- and the
Gaulish word for an
eminence or high
ground (τόπον ἐξέχοντα),
dunon. An
early interpretation of
Gaulish Lugduno as
meaning "Desired Mountain"...
-
Cambodunum (today Kempten) is
apparently derived from the
Celtic cambo dunon: "fortified
place at the
river bend" . One
classical source, Servius' commentary...
