Mayenne
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English
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Proper noun
Mayenne
- One of the départements in Pays de la Loire, France (number 53).
- A tributary river of the Sarthe in northwest France.
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French
Etymology
The place is named after the River Mayenne, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *madyeti (“to burst, spread”); alternatively, from Latin madeo (“to be wet”). Both are ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet, moist”).
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Proper noun
Mayenne f
- Mayenne (a department of Pays de la Loire, France)
- Mayenne (a right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France)
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References
- Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : Tome 1, Formations préceltiques, celtiques, romanes : étymologie de 35000 noms de lieux, Librairie Droz, 1990, 708 p. lire en ligne ), p. 119
- Gilles Fossat, « Les noms de l'eau en Vaucluse, toponymie et hydronymie », éd. L'Harmattan