Louvain
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- Leuven (borrowed from Dutch)
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Louvain
- The capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium.
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Belgian city
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Borrowed from Medieval Latin Luvanium, Latinized from a Viking/North Germanic or Frankish name *Loven, composed of *lo (“forest, clearing”) + *hvein (“swamp, marsh”), from Proto-Germanic *hwainō, *hwin- (“swamp; moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”), thus meaning "swamp near the forest."[1][2]
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Louvain ?
- Capital city of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium
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- Leuven (in Dutch)