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Would not be so hard to translate from Romanian to English ,so people here knows what you are posting.Regarding the etymology of Moldova
It is of Slavicized Gothic origin;
the suffix"-va" is Slavic,while "Mold-o",similar to Molde, is Gothic.
Balto-Slavicized variants:
Râu în Moldova
Moldova, Ida‐Virumaa (county), Estonia (localitate pe țărmul Balticii)
Molodovo – Bucovina – Ucraina (localitate)
Moldova Veche/Nouă – Caraş‐Severin, Banat
Moldoveneşti, Cluj (se referă la o populație şi nu e relevant)
Moldoveni, Ialomița (dar şi Teleorman) (se referă la o populație şi nu e relevant)
Moldovița (Suceava şi Caraş‐Severin) (interesantă replica din Banat)
Moldava, Ústecký, Cehia (la granița Germaniei, spre Dresda)
Moldava, Teplice, Cehia (tot la granița Germaniei)
Moldava nad Bodvou, Košicky (county), Slovacia
Moldawin, Szczecin (county), Polonia
Moldavanka, reg. Krasnodar, Rusia (localitatea în apropierea coastei Mării Negre, la SE de Marea de Azov)
Moldavanka, reg. Orenburg, Rusia (pe Ural, la NNE de Marea Caspică, la marginea stepei Kîrkîză şi a statului Kazahstan)
Gothic variants:
Moldau – numele german al râului Vltava
Molde în Norvegia
Moldjord, Norvegia
Moldegard, Norvegia
Moldestad, Norvegia
Moldrup, provincie în Danemarca
Moldbjerg, Danemarca
Moldenit, Germania
Moldes, Spania
Moldones, Spania
Moldgreen, Marea Britanie
I will translate later,if you do not,now I am too lazy to do this.
As for the name of the river,this is how the female dog of first King of Moldavia,Dragos Voda was called,Molda.
http://adevarul.ro/locale/iasi/lege...regiuni-1_51691503053c7dd83f036b7e/index.html
(the article is in Romanian).
What is written there,according to the legend from Moldavia,Dragos Voda,first ruler of Moldavia,was hunting.
He shoot with the arrow a large kind of bison,that was living those times in Moldova.
The bison went to the waters of the river Moldova and the hunting female dog of the king,after the bison,in the waters of the river.
The dog has drown and to remember about the dog,the King named that water Moldova,from Molda.
Now,I do not know in what countries Molda is used to name female beings,but I doubt is coming from the Germanic mold.