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Riga

//ˈɹiːɡə// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The capital city of Latvia.

    "[The city is] at least ten Rigas and Jelgavas put together! Palace upon palace, bridge upon bridge, tower upon tower."

  2. 2
    A surname.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latvian Rīga, of disputed origin: * Possibly a form of Riege, the German name for the Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava river. * Possibly from rija (“threshing barn”), the j becoming a g in German (note that English geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that German historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of Rīga from rija).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian Riga and Greek Ρήγα (Ríga).

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