Amiens

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

From French Amiens.

Proper noun

[edit]

Amiens

  1. The capital city of the Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France.

Translations

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Middle French Amiens.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /a.mjɛ̃/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

[edit]

Amiens ?

  1. Amiens (the capital city of the Somme department, Hauts-de-France region, France)

Derived terms

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

Middle French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old French Amiens.

Proper noun

[edit]

Amiens

  1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)
    • 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.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

[edit]
  • French: Amiens

Old French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

[edit]

Amiens

  1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)

Descendants

[edit]

References

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

Portuguese

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]
 

Proper noun

[edit]

Amiens f

  1. Amiens (the capital city of the modern Somme department, in the modern region of Hauts-de-France, France)