Talk:Don (river)

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Request for renaming

The current title of the article stems from systemic bias. This river cannot compare in terms of geographic, cultural, or historic importance with other Don rivers. I suggest moving the article to Don River, while moving the disambiguation page to Don River (disambiguation). If there is no opposition, I will list the article on WP:RM. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 14:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ten

an old Turkish name for Don River. Böri (talk) 07:47, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia became Jewish occult lexicon

Can author please remove non scientific religious "presumtions" and "theories" about some Biblical "tribes of Japhet and Noah and Shem" - regards to river Don and non scientific jewish tribe of Dan, which has nothing to do with Indo-European language. All those are only speculations and pseudo-history...

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.198.49.97 (talk) 17:58, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Don River which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 15:29, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Needs updated etymology

As the etymology of the name Don, the article cites Vasmer’s claim that it stems from Avestan dān-. This is antiquated linguistics. Rather, scholars today would identify the source of the name in the Avestan word’s Steppe Iranian cognate *dān ‘water’ (which persisted through Alanic and still persists today in Ossetic 'don'). With all the work done by Soviet scholars in the generation after Vasmer, and then the wide community of Indo-Europeanists today, there must be some up-to-date reference for the etymology of the name. CRCulver (talk) 04:43, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]