Dieppe
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English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe.[1]
The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dieppe
- A coastal town in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Synonym: Leger Corner (historical)
Translations
town in Normandy, France
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dobson, E. J. (1957) English pronunciation 1500-1700, second edition, volume II: Phonology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1968, →OCLC, § 133, page 653:
- A special case of the latter is Dieppe, which in the seventeenth century was pronounced with [iː], being equated with deep in the ‘homophone’ lists of Hodges, Hunt, Fox and Hookes, Strong, Cooper, and Brown. The PresE pronunciation [di(ː)ep] or is a reformation after Modern French—an all-too-common process in foreign place-names.
French
Etymology
The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dieppe m
- A coastal town in the Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Synonym: Leger Corner (historical)