-
Gaulish name,
eburo- (also the name for a dark reddish-brown colour,
cognate with Gr**** orphnos, Old
Norse iarpr "brown"); like sorbus,
eburo-
seems to have...
-
Gallic tribe who
inhabited the area.
Their name
comes from the
Gaulish eburo meaning 'yew tree'. The
inhabitants of Évreux are
known as
Ebroicians (French:...
- dubus,
dubis ‘black’ dūno- ‘fortress’, ‘mountain’ duro- 'square, market'
eburo- ‘yew (sacred tree)’ -ialo- ‘glade’ lāno- 'plain' / 'full' -late ‘swamp’...
- -og). However,
Eburos (Eβουρος, Eburus, Eburius) was also a
Celtic personal name, so Eburākon
could also mean "the
property of
Eburos". Indeed, the 12th‑century...
- (Essonne,
Everiaco in 1158).
Peter Schrijver has
instead counter-argued that "
eburos did not mean yew tree" and that the
derivation from
Latin ebur (ivory) instead...
-
perhaps meaning "estate of
Eburius (the
Latinized form of the
Gallic patronym Eburos)", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In 1897, the name of the
commune officially...
- have
resulted in a
number of
place names.
These include the Proto-Celtic
eburos; Old
Irish ibar;
Irish iobhar,
iubhar and iúr; and the
Scottish Gaelic iubhar...
- the
ancient Celtic word ebora/ebura, the
genitive plural form of the word
eburos (yew), the name of a
species of tree, so its name
means "of the yew trees...
- Williams, p. 1240. Schrijver, P. C. H. (2015). "The
meaning of
Celtic *
eburos". In: Oudaer, Guillaume, Hily, Gael, Le Bihan,
Herve (eds.). Mélanges en...
- 'oat') From
Western dialect, from OFr bourgène, from Gaul *eburi-gena, from
eburos W efwr 'cow parsnip', dial. (N) ewr, Br evor 'alder buckthorn', Sc iubhar...
