Gien

See also: gien

English

Etymology

French, from Late Latin Giomum, probably of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *gyemos *magos (“winter market”).[1]

Proper noun

Gien (plural Giens)

  1. A commune of the Loiret department, in north-central France.
  2. A surname.

References
  1. Xavier Delamarre, Notes d’onomastique gauloise [archive], Études celtiques, Année 2014, 40, pp. 41-52

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