Mayenne

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Mayenne

2. A department of Pays de la Loire, France (number 53).
4. A right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France, flowing through the departments of Orne, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire.

The place is named after the River Mayenne, probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *madyeti (“to burst, spread”); alternatively, from Latin madeo (“to be wet”). Both are ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to be wet, moist”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.jɛn/

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Mayenne f

1. Mayenne (a department of Pays de la Loire, France)
2. Mayenne (a right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France, flowing through the departments of Orne, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire)

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• Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : Tome 1, Formations préceltiques, celtiques, romanes : étymologie de 35000 noms de lieux, Librairie Droz, 1990, 708 p. lire en ligne [archive]), p. 119
• Gilles Fossat, « Les noms de l'eau en Vaucluse, toponymie et hydronymie », éd. L'Harmattan