Talk:Derwent River (Tasmania)
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[edit] earlier question
Which Enterprise? Which Missouri? -129.2.40.144 01:54, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Disambiguated. Securiger 02:03, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Page name
I know it is a real PITA to do this immediately after the links have been changed, but shouldn't this article have the primary Derwent River article name - going by how many other articles link to the Derwent River (SA) and Derwent River (Tas) articles? -- Chuq 00:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Etymology
Barrylb changed the etymology from "valley thick with oaks" to "clear water" on the basis of the site http://www.derwentestuary.org.au/ I have changed it back because every other reference I can find—and there are many, I just listed the first 3 as references—agrees with the original version. (Rather more worringly, the www.derwentestuary.org.au not only disagrees with everyone else, but does so without giving an actual etymology, and in a context where they are effectively using this "evidence" as a supporting argument.) -- Securiger 08:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- Hmmm... I will email the people at the Derwent Estuary program. I will be very interested to hear what they have to say about this. -- Barrylb 18:48, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- Derwent Estuary Program sent me a link http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/DEM_DIO/DERWENT_Celtic_Dwr_gent_clear_w.html as justification for saying the name is based on 'clear water'. They said 'valley thick with oaks' could be right though, and suggested asking a university about which is correct. Any ideas who to contact, or any other way of knowing which meaning is correct other than just the number of references? Also I think based on the references the name should actually be 'river lined with oaks' rather than 'valley thick with oaks'. -- Barrylb 10:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I would like to change the explanation of derivation of the name to this:
The name is Brythonic Celtic for "river lined with oaks"[1][2] or "clear water"[3]
It seems there are two possible derivations of the name. I also removed the internal reference to Etymology_of_Cumbrian_Place_Names#Rivers because it is based on one of the references already given.
