Editing Aberdeen (section)

==Toponymy==
{{Main|Etymology of Aberdeen}}

The name given to Aberdeen translates as 'mouth of the river Don', and is recorded as Aberdon in 1172 and Aberden in {{Circa|1180}}. The first element of the name is the [[Pictish language|Pictish]] word {{Lang|xpi|aber}} 'river mouth'. The second element is from the Celtic river goddess [[Divona|Devona]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Grant|first=Alison|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759569647|title=The Pocket Guide to Scottish Place-Names|date=2010|publisher=Richard Drew Ltd|isbn=978-1-899471-00-3|editor-last=Macleod|editor-first=Iseabail|location=Glasgow|pages=23|oclc=759569647|access-date=8 February 2021|archive-date=15 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815070952/http://worldcat.org/oclc/759569647|url-status=live}}</ref>

Aberdeen is usually described as within the historical [[Picts|Pictish]] territory and became Gaelic-speaking at some time in the medieval period. Old Aberdeen is the approximate location of Aberdon, the first settlement of Aberdeen; this literally means "the mouth of the Don". The [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] word {{lang|cel|aber}} means "river mouth", as in modern Welsh ([[Aberystwyth]], [[Aberdare]], [[Aberbeeg]] etc.).<ref name="Charnock">{{Cite book |first=Richard Stephen |last=Charnock |title=Local Etymology: A Derivative Dictionary of Geographical Names |year=1859 |publisher=Houlston and Wright }}</ref> The [[Scottish Gaelic]] name is {{lang|gd|Obar Dheathain}} (variation: {{lang|gd|Obairreadhain}}; {{lang|gd|*obar}} presumably being a loan from the earlier Pictish; the Gaelic term is {{lang|gd|inbhir}}), and in [[Latin]], the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] referred to the river as {{lang|la|Devana}}. [[Medieval Latin|Medieval]] (or [[Ecclesiastical Latin|Ecclesiastical]]) Latin has it as {{Lang|la-x-medieval|Aberdonia}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SwLdCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|title=Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination, 1314–2014|first=Robert|last=Crawford|year=2014|page=135|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0748685868|access-date=18 March 2023|archive-date=4 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230504233204/https://books.google.com/books?id=SwLdCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|url-status=live}}</ref>

The local [[Doric dialect (Scotland)|Doric]] pronunciation, {{IPA|sco|ˌeːbərˈdin||AberdeencityDoric.ogg}} or {{IPA|sco|ˈeːbərdin||Aiberdeen.ogg}} (with a long ''ay'' sound), is frequently rendered ''Aiberdeen'' or {{lang|sco|Aiberdein}}.