Saint-Malo
English
editProper noun
editSaint-Malo
- A walled port city in Ille-et-Vilaine department, on the north coast of Brittany, France.
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editcity in Brittany
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editEtymology
editSaid to be named after Saint Malo of Wales, whose name could be from Old Breton machlou, from mach (“hostage, warrant”) + lou (“beautiful, bright, brilliant”) (probably from the same source as Gaulish leux (“light, brilliance”)).[1]
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit- Saint-Malo (a city in Brittany, France)
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editReferences
edit- ^ Léon Fleuriot, Les Origines de la Bretagne, ed. Payot, 1982, p. 150 and 281
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