Vedra

See also: vedra, vedrà, and vědra

English

Proper noun

Vedra

1. A municipality of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *wẹ:drā- (“a bend”), compare Welsh gwair (“(in compounds) bend, curve, ring”)

View of the river

Proper noun

Vedra f sg (genitive Vedrae); first declension

1. A river in Britannia, maybe the Wear

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vedra
genitive	Vedrae
dative	Vedrae
accusative	Vedram
ablative	Vedrā
vocative	Vedra

References

• “Vedra”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Alan James - Brittonic Language in the Old North