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Doubs

/du/

proper noun/du/

Doubs (a left tributary of the Saône, running through the cantons of Neuchâtel and Jura, Switzerland and the departments of Doubs, Jura and Saône-et-Loire, France); Doubs (a department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

From Gaulish Dubis, from the root of Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”). Compare Latin Dūbis, Breton du (“black”).