Almorode: o rio que corre entre as árvores cortadas. Notas sobre um hidrónimo da bacia do Leça

Resumo

Assuming hydronymy as a special lexical subset that preserves the most ancient roots found in modern languages, we shall propose that Almorode, a river-name designating a watercourse of Northern Portugal, combines two Indo-European roots for European river names (*alm ‘to flow’ + *wer ‘water’) with the Germanic locative suffix *reuth ‘flat land’. This proposal contrasts with other current hypotheses positing different etymological origins for this hydronym (namely, its Arabic origin).