Normandy

English

Etymology

From Middle English Normandie, Normandye, from Old English Normandiġ, from Old French Normendie, from normant + -ie. Compare Old Norse Norðmanndi (“Normandy”). Normant refers to the Germanic words for 'north' and 'man', as the original Normans were of Scandinavian origin. More at Norman.

Proper noun

Normandy

1. A region and former province of Northwest France on the English Channel. Its beaches were the site of Allied landings on D-Day (June 6, 1944). The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.

Translations

region of France

• Afrikaans: Normandië
• Albanian: Normandia
• Arabic: نُورْمَانْدِي f (nūrmāndī)
• Armenian: Նորմանդիա (Normandia)
• Azerbaijani: Normandiya
• Basque: Normandia
• Belarusian: Нармандыя f (Narmandyja)
• Breton: Normandi (br)
• Bulgarian: Норма́ндия f (Normándija)
• Catalan: Normandia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 諾曼底／诺曼底 (zh) (Nuòmàndǐ), 诺曼底 (zh) (Nuòmàndǐ)

• Czech: Normandie (cs) f
• Danish: Normandiet
• Dutch: Normandië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Normandio
• Estonian: Normandia
• Faroese: Norðmandíið n
• Finnish: Normandia (fi)
• French: Normandie (fr) f

  Middle French: Normendie

  Old French: Normandie, Normendie

• Galician: Normandía (gl) f
• Georgian: ნორმანდია (normandia)
• German: Normandie (de) f
• Greek: Νορμανδία f (Normandía)
• Hebrew: נורמנדי f (normandi)
• Hungarian: Normandia (hu)
• Icelandic: Norðmandí n, Normandí n
• Indonesian: Normandia
• Irish: An Normainn f
• Italian: Normandia (it) f
• Japanese: ノルマンディー (Norumandī)
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• Korean: 노르망디 (noreumangdi)
• Latin: Normannia f
• Latvian: Normandija f
• Lithuanian: Normandija f
• Macedonian: Нормандија f (Normandija)
• Malay: Normandie
• Marathi: नॉर्मंडी (nŏrmaṇḍī)
• Norman: Nouormandie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Normandie

  Nynorsk: Normandie

• Occitan: Normandia f
• Old Norse: Norðmandí n
• Old Occitan: Normandia
• Persian: نرماندی (fa) (Normândî)
• Polish: Normandia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Normandia (pt) f
• Romanian: Normandia f
• Russian: Норма́ндия (ru) f (Normándija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нормандија f

  Roman: Normandija (sh) f

• Slovak: Normandia f
• Slovene: Normandíja (sl) f
• Spanish: Normandía f
• Swedish: Normandie n, Normandiet n
• Thai: นอร์ม็องดี (nɔɔr-mɔng-dii)
• Turkish: Normandiya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Нормандія f (Normandija)
• Vietnamese: Normandie
• Welsh: Normandi
• Yiddish: נאָרמאַנדי f (normandi)

Anagrams

• andronym, monandry

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Middle English

Proper noun

Normandy

1. Alternative form of Normandie