Maine
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Etymology 1 edit
From French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name, in turn named after the river with the same name that runs through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.[1]
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- (province of France):
- (place in the United States):
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Maine
- A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
- A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire.
- A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
- A town in New York.
- A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
- A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
- University of Maine.
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Federal District: Washington, D.C. |
Territories: American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands |
References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Maine”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading edit
- Maine, Outagamie County, Wisconsin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maine, New York on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Maine River (Maine) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Maine
- A river in France, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
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Maine
- A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
- A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
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- Maine, Marathon County, Wisconsin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Maine
- A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
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Maine
- A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
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Maine
- Alternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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Maine ?
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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Maine (genitive Maines)
- Maine (US state)
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Maine
- Maine (a state of the United States)
- Maine (a province of France)
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Inflection of Maine (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Maine | — | ||
genitive | Mainen | — | ||
partitive | Mainea | — | ||
illative | Maineen | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Maine | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Maine | — | |
gen. | Mainen | |||
genitive | Mainen | — | ||
partitive | Mainea | — | ||
inessive | Mainessa | — | ||
elative | Mainesta | — | ||
illative | Maineen | — | ||
adessive | Mainella | — | ||
ablative | Mainelta | — | ||
allative | Mainelle | — | ||
essive | Mainena | — | ||
translative | Maineksi | — | ||
abessive | Mainetta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.
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Maine m
- Maine (a province of France)
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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From earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne.
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Maine f
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Maine
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Maine
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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Maine m
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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Unadapted borrowing from English Maine, from French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.
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Maine n (indeclinable)
- Maine (a state of the United States)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from French Maine, from Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica.
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Maine n (indeclinable)
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- Maine in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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Unadapted borrowing from French Maine.
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Maine
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Maine m
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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Maine m inan (genitive singular Mainu, declension pattern of dub)
- Maine (a state of the United States)
References edit
- “Maine”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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Maine ?
- Maine (a state of the United States)
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- Maine on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es