Dale (landform)

A dale is a valley, especially an open, gently-sloping ground between low hills with a stream flowing through it.

[1] It is used most frequently in the North of England and the Southern Uplands of Scotland; the term "fell" commonly refers to mountains or hills that flank a dale.

[4][5] A distant relative of dale is currency unit dollar, stemming from German thaler or daler, short for joachimsthaler coins manufactured in the town of Joachimsthal in Bohemia.

[6] The word is perhaps related to Welsh dol (meadow, pasture, valley), Russian dol (valley, reverse side) and Serbian/Croatian/Bulgarian/Russian dolina (basin, doline is a geological term for certain surface depressions in karst areas).

The uses are semantic equivalents to many words and phrases, suggesting a common Indo-European affinity.

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