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There are two rivers (creeks?) called Aa in the Netherlands. We don't have Aa or A in our dictonairy but now I wonder if there's a shared root somewhere.
by brnt 4y ago
There are two rivers (creeks?) called Aa in the Netherlands. We don't have Aa or A in our dictonairy but now I wonder if there's a shared root somewhere.
- Symbiote 4y agoWiktionary is usually good with words like this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ahw%C5%8D#Descendants https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... And it thinks "a" is an archaic Dutch word meaning stream: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Dutch https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a#Dutch
- Beltalowda 4y agoThere are far more than two, and according to [1] it is indeed related via the proto-Germanic "ahwō" for stream or river. [1]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_(waternaam) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aa_(waternaam)