Nanzeg
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Luxembourgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old High German Nanzig, from Late Latin Nanciaco (also attested as Nanciacum, Nanceiacum), probably from a Gaulish name Nantiaco (“domain of Nantios”), a name possibly from the noun nantos (“(deepened) valley, torrent, river”), from Proto-Celtic *nantos.[1][2] Cognate with German Nanzig.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Nanzeg ?
- Nancy (a city in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Grand Est, France)
References[edit]
- ^ Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise, éditions Errance, 2003, 440 p. (ISBN 978-2-87772-237-7), p. 230
- ^ C.Zeuss, Grammatica Celtica, editio altera curavit H.Ebel, Ph.Dr., Berolini, Apud Weidmannos MDCCCLXXI (1871), p. 764 : nantuates (i.e. Vallenses), p. 814 : nant (vallis ; cf. Nantuates Caes). Ernest Desjardins, Géographie historique et administrative de la Gaule romaine, Paris, Hachette, 1878
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