Pau
See also: pau
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Pau
- A city, the capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
- A commune of the province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.
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city in New Aquitaine, France
commune in Sardinia, Italy
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Pau m
- a male given name, equivalent to English Paul
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Etymology edit
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.
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Pau m or f
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- Saupiquet, Amédée (2004). negue, Princi (ed.). Petite histoire de Pau, la ville de Pau aux trois phases de son histoire.
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Pau m (plural Paus)
- peacock
- peafowl
- Dat Heken von ’n Pau hett bunte Steertfeddern.
- The male peafowl (peacock) has colorful tail feathers.
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Pau m