Named for Bourbon County, Kentucky, from the French royal house, from Gaulish 'borvo' (to bubble), referring to local hot springs.
A type of American whiskey distilled primarily from corn, associated with Kentucky.
Named after Bourbon County, Kentucky, itself named in 1785 in honor of the French Royal House of Bourbon, the dynasty that aided the American Revolution through the Franco-American alliance. The family name 'Bourbon' derives from the lordship of Bourbon-l'Archambault in the Auvergne region of central France, from the Gaulish theonym *Borvo or *Bormo, the name of a Celtic god of hot springs, from a Gaulish root meaning 'to bubble, to boil,' cognate with Latin 'fervēre' (to boil), from PIE *bʰrewh₁- (to boil, to brew). The hot springs at Bourbon-l'Archambault were sacred in antiquity. Thus the name of America's native spirit traces