Amiens

English

Etymology

Old French Amiens

Proper noun

Amiens

  1. A large city which is the capital of The Somme, France.

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French

Etymology

Middle French Amiens

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.mjɛ̃/
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Proper noun

Amiens

  1. Amiens (city)

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French Amiens

Proper noun

Amiens

  1. Amiens (city)
    • 1360s, Jean Froissart, Chroniques de J. Froissart, 1870 ed., Paris: Jules Renoir, book I, p. 96
      Depuis se jeua, esbati et demora li rois d'Engleterre avoecques le roy de France en le cité d'Amiens.

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Old French

Etymology

From the Roman praenomen Ambianum, from Latin Ambiani (“Celtic tribe in northern Gaul”), possibly from Gaulish ambe (“river”), from Proto-Celtic *abū[1], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“water”).

Proper noun

Amiens

  1. Amiens (city)

Descendants

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Amiens f

  1. Amiens (a city and commune, the department capital of Somme, Picardy, France)
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