Etymology

Avon

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Today it means: A river in Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol, England; running from Acton Turville into the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth. Full definition →

Proto-Brythonic *aβon
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The story

  1. Proto-Brythonic · derived from*aβon“river”
  2. English todayAvon

From Proto-Brythonic *aβon (“river”). Compare with Welsh afon. Doublet of Almond (“a river in Scotland”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Brythonic*aβon all →

almond

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