London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England)
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Londres, borrowed from Old French Londres, possibly from Old English Lunden, possibly from Latin Londinium.
London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England)
köken: Adapted borrowing of English London + -ýn.
Etimoloji
Uncertain, but likely from Proto-Celtic *Londinyom (“place that floods”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath; wild land”) + *-injo-, a suffix forming specific nouns and found in other Romano-Celtic placenames. Cognate to Proto-Celtic *landā (“low-lying land”), whence Old Irish land, Welsh llan, as well as *londos (“subduing > fierce”, adj.), whence Old Irish lond. Details An earlier, more…