- Latin/Romance bièvre 'beaver' It bevero, OSp
befre LL
beber (gen. bebrum), fr Gaul.
bebros Sc beabhar, W/C befer, Br (dial) bieuzr, OBr
beuer Lat. fiber,
later replaced...
- all
ultimately stemming from Proto-Celtic *brebu ('beaver'; see
Gaulish bebros, bebrus, Old
Irish Bibar, 'beaver'). Ivan
Duridanov also
suggested that...
- Dordogne. The name of the
Beauronne has a
Celtic origin, and
comes from
bebros ("beaver") and ona ("river"). The river's
source is in the
commune of Église-Neuve-d'Issac...
- Bévéra. A
river of
southeastern France and
northwestern Italy. To
Gaulish bebros,
bebrus ‘beaver’. See also → Bévera.
Bitto (So). A
tributary of the river...
-
still poorly understood. The term may have come from the
Celtic *bibro- / *
bebro- (beaver)
followed by the
collective suffix -akti (cf. Irish,
Gallic aktā)...
- Affairs. Johannesburg,
South Africa. p. 29. Young,
Rabbi Roderick, Young-
Bebro-Siegenberg-Metzenberg
Family Tree, Ancestry.com Darmon,
Adrian M. (2003)...
-
reveals that "Buluuron" is
derived from the
Gallic bébronnos, made up of
bébros (= "beaver") and
onnos (= "river").
Monument of the
surrender of the Poche...
