Vrouwelijk

Vienne

(Engels)

  1. (feminine) Vienna (the capital city and state of Austria)
  2. (feminine) Vienne (a department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
  3. (feminine) Vienne (a left tributary of the Loire in southwest France, flowing through the departments of Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Charente, Vienne and Indre-et-Loire)
  4. (feminine) Vienne (a town and commune of Isère department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France)

Frequentie

B1
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/vjɛn/
Etymologie (Engels)

In summary

Of disputed origin. Perhaps from the Roman name, Latin Vindobona, or possibly from a Celtic word *Veduna (“forest stream”), which would justify the phonetic evolution into the modern french form. Compare Proto-Celtic *widus (“woodland”).

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