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Amiens

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Etymology

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From French Amiens.

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Amiens

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

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French Amiens.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.mjɛ̃/
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Amiens ?

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

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French Amiens.

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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.
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Descendants

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  • French: Amiens

Old French

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Etymology

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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

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Amiens

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

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References

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

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Amiens f

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