Pau
See also: pau
English
Proper noun
Pau
- A city, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- A commune of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.
Translations
city in New Aquitaine, France
Catalan
French
Etymology
Possibly related to pieu (“stake, post”), or possibly related to pieux (“pious”), referring to a nearby ford named by the church. Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European toponym *pal, *bal referring to its location at the foot of the mountains.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po/
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References
- Saupiquet, Amédée (2004). negue, Princi (ed.). Petite histoire de Pau, la ville de Pau aux trois phases de son histoire.
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