Europe
- See also Old European hydronymy.
- Avon: Brythonic meaning "river"
- Avonbeg: Irish meaning "small river"
- Avonmore: Irish meaning "big river"
- Awbeg: Irish meaning "small river"
- River Boyne: Irish river goddess Boann, "white cow"
- Cam: Brythonic meaning "crooked"
- Clanrye: Irish meaning "harbour of the king"
- Clwyd: Welsh meaning "hurdle"
- Danube: Latin Danuvius, Dacian: Donaris, from Iranian (Scythian or Sarmatian) dānu- 'river', of Indo-European origin
- Argeş: from Greek or maybe Thracian arges = "bright"
- Bistriţa: Slavic "bistra" = "clear"
- Caraş: Turkish "kara" = "black", "dark"
- Drave: in Latin "Dravus", of Thracian or Illyrian origin, probably from PIE *dhreu = "to flow, to fall"
- Ialomiţa: Slavic "jalov" = "infertile"
- Prahova: Slavic "prag"="waterfall" or "prah"="dust"
- Siret: ancient Thracian "Seretos", probably from PIE *sreu = "to flow"
- Don (Aberdeenshire, Scotland): from Celtic Devona 'goddess'
- Emajõgi: Estonian meaning "mother river"
- Erne: Irish after the name of the mythical princess, Éirne
- Foyle: Irish meaning "estuary of the lip"
- Guadalquivir: from the Arabic wadi al-kabir, or "great river"
- Hayle: from Cornish Heyl "estuary"
- Kymijoki: Old Finnish for kymi, "huge river"
- Lagan: Irish meaning "river of the low-lying district"
- Llobregat: from Latin Rubricatus "red river"
- Mersey: Anglo Saxon meaning "boundary river"
- Narva: Veps after "rapid" or "falls"
- Quoile: Irish meaning "the narrow"
- Rhine: from the archaic German Rhine, which in turn comes from Middle High German: Rin, from the Proto-Indo-European root *reie- ("to flow, run").
- The Reno River in Italy shares the same etymology.
- River Severn: Latin "Sabrina" from an Old British river goddess of that name, becoming "Hafren" in modern Welsh
- River Somer
- Slaney: Irish meaning "river of health"
- Thames: Latin "Tamesis" from Brythonic meaning "dark river"
- The River Thame and River Tamar, and probably the three rivers called River Tame, have a similar etymological root
- Tyne: Brythonic meaning "river"
- Torne älv: Likely of Finnish origin, meaning "spear"
- Volga River: Slavic влага "vlaga", волога "vologa" meaning "wetness", "humidity"; alternatively, Proto-Uralic *valki- "white"; alternatively, Russian velikij "great"
- Wear: Brythonic meaning "water"
Read more about this topic: List Of River Name Etymologies
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