Word Origin Summary

Дон is attested in Russian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. ДонъOld East Slavicderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• 頓河

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• ドン川

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Don

  English · borrowed from

• aberdeen angus

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

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