• Ernest Angély Séraphin Nègre (French pronunciation: [ɛʁnɛst ɑ̃ʒeli seʁafɛ̃ nɛɡʁ], 11 October 1907 – 15 April 2000) was a French toponymist. He was born...
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  • Nègre (1820–1880), French photographer José Negre (1875-1939), Spanish anarcho-syndicalist leader Ed Negre (1929-2014), American NASCAR driver Ernest...
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    be any link with this French word. According to the French geographer Ernest Nègre, the name Menton comes from the Roman name Mento. However, it is possible...
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    oronymic and the hydronymic proposals were both "reasonable". The same year Ernest Nègre in his General toponymy of France, vol 1, explained the name of Alise-Sainte-Reine...
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    primitive form Eculisna then alternating the old forms -isna and -isma led Ernest Nègre to prefer the first with -isna. The first element would be Ecul-. According...
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    ("miller"). The [r] at the end of Moller would have been assimilated to [s]". Ernest Nègre explains this toponym by the Germanic personal name Mudila + suffix -heim...
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  • Grosclaude (1926–2002), philosopher and French linguist Erwin Gustav Gudde Ernest Nègre (1907–2000), French toponymist W. F. H. Nicolaisen (1927–2016), folklorist...
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    French) General Toponymy of France, Ernest Nègre, 28 July 2014 (in French) General Toponymy of France, Ernest Nègre, 28 July 2014 (in French) Jean-Baptiste...
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  • d'onomastique. 26: 284–292. doi:10.3406/rio.1974.2193. S2CID 249329873. Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France, Librairie Droz, Genève, p. 1494 [1]...
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    National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024. Ernest Nègre, "Toponymie générale de la France, Volume 1", p.192 Sandre. "Fiche cours...
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    term *ivos or *īvos is not attested and should include an asterisk. Ernest Nègre, reasoning from this same erroneous form, considered that it might be...
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    Number 87, June 2010 (in French) General Toponymy of France, Vol. 1, Ernest Nègre, Librairie Droz, 1990, ISBN 9782600028837, p. 128, Ardenne (in French)...
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    French) Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, Vol II, 676 pages, p. 1236, ISBN 978-2-6000-0133-5 (in French). Ernest Nègre, General...
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    France, Librairie Guénégaud, Paris, 1979, ISBN 2-85023-076-6, p. 72b Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France, Librairie Droz, Genève, p. 732, n°...
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    French grant ("grand"). François de Beaurepaire followed suit, as well as Ernest Nègre and René Lepelley. According to Édouard Le Héricher ("Avranchin monumental...
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    Bruges 33520 France". www.map-france.com. Retrieved 17 December 2023. Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France (French) Population en historique depuis...
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    barbares, Laffite Reprints, Marseille, 1973 (1st edition 1950), p 91 Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux...
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    a distortion of the classical Latin robiginem for rust, according to Ernest Nègre. Charles Rostaing, on the other hand, believed that the name might predate...
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  • d'oïl. Champignac Pourceaugnac Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France (TGF), Librairie Droz, 1990. Ernest Nègre Gaston Zink, Phonétique historique...
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    suffixes -enne and -ate, in the general sense of a "citadel". According to Ernest Nègre, the name comes from the Roman name Albinus with the suffix -àtis. The...
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  • Julian e Gaulena) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. Ernest Nègre (born 11 October 1907 in Saint-Julien-Gaulène, died 15 April 2000 in...
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    beginning of the 13th century, but in the form of Mariano: According to Ernest Nègre, the place name derived from the proper Roman name of Marianus, which...
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    Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (French: [ɛʁnɛst alɛksɑ̃dʁ ɑ̃sɛʁmɛ]; 11 November 1883 – 20 February 1969) was a Swiss conductor. Ansermet was born in Vevey,...
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    There is fact a mill at Sénoville (Manche), called La Masse de Bavent. Ernest Nègre proposes an explanation of Bavent from a German anthroponym Badvin. It...
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    Cadillac-sur-Garonne is attested in the form Cadilacum in 1306. Toponymist Ernest Nègre explains the name as made up of personal Roman name -Catilius, with the...
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    for whom this explanation also applies to Grou de Bane. According to Ernest Nègre, Banon comes from a Germanic proper name Bano. Banon in Vivaro-Alpine...
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    Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French) Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, Vol II, 676 pages...
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    Commune de Banneville-la-Campagne (14036), INSEE (in French) Google Maps Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, 708 pages, p. 374...
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    using as a base *Al-t- and he also saw an oronym in Authon. According to Ernest Nègre the name came from the Germanic proper name Alto. The name Briançon is...
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    element of the landscape shaped like a wedge: the village according to Ernest Nègre, or the fields according to Fénié. The name of the district of Moustier...
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