Aveyron

From French Aveyron.

Aveyron

2. A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Rodez (INSEE code 12).
4. A right tributary of the Tarn in the departments of Aveyron, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitania, France.

Named after the Arve River, of uncertain origin, possibly a Celtic name from Proto-Celtic *garwos (“violent, rough, bumpy”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“to bristle”). Compare Welsh garw (“rough, bumpy”) and Irish garbh.

• IPA^(key): /a.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ ~ /a.ve.ʁɔ̃/

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1. Aveyron (a department of Occitania, France)
2. Aveyron (a right tributary of the Tarn in the departments of Aveyron, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitania, France)

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• Chambers, William (1882): Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language