Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch. · A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay. · A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich. · A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
Most of the rivers' names are from the root of stour (“powerful, tall, large”), though some may have been borrowed through and influenced by Celtic (compare Welsh dŵr (“water”).
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- Cognate mentiondŵrcy · water
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