Pau
See also: pau
English
Proper noun
Pau
- A city, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-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.
German Low German
Noun
Pau m (plural Paus)
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