Mayenne

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /maɪˈɛn/ Rhymes: -ɛn === Proper noun === Mayenne A department of Pays de la Loire, France (number 53). A right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France, flowing through the departments of Orne, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire. ==== Translations ==== == French == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ma.jɛn/ === Proper noun === Mayenne f Mayenne (a department of Pays de la Loire, France) Mayenne (a right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France, flowing through the departments of Orne, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire) ==== Derived terms ==== Mayennais mayennais === References === 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