Dubra

Galician

Etymology

A hydronym, attested in medieval local Latin documents as Dubria, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Celtic *dubros (“dark, water”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈduβɾa̝/

Proper noun

Dubra m

  1. a river tributary to the Tambre, in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, which flows for some 20 km
  2. a toponymical surname

Derived terms

References
  • "Dubra" in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. <http://ilg.usc.es/cag/>
  1. Moralejo, Juan José (2009). "Hidronimia prerromana de Gallaecia". In Kremer, Dieter. Onomástica galega II : onimia e onomástica prerromana e a situación lingüística do noroeste peninsular : actas do segundo coloquio, Leipzig, 17 3 18 de outubro de 2008. Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. p. 63. →ISBN.
  2. García Trabazo, José Virgilio (2016) “Prelatin Toponymy of Asturies: a critical review in a historical-comparative perspective”, in Lletres Asturianes‎, number 115, retrieved 14 June 2018, pages 51-71
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