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Re: Nancy/ Nantia
Oddly enough, the first resource that directed me to Celtic as the language of origin was the Spanish Wikipedia page on Nancy, France.This Geographical Etymology source explains that Nancy is derived from the Celtic word nant, meaning valley:http://www.archive.org/stream/geographicaletym00blacuoft/geographicaletym00blacuoft_djvu.txtThis also explains the etymology:
http://www.speedylook.com/Nancy.htmlAnd this (an online book):
http://books.google.com/books?id=-KwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA154&ots=S0aStAuURn&vq=nancy&dq=etymology+Nancy+valley&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=htmlAnyway, those were the best sources I came up with. The Latin Nantio/a and Nanceiacum names would have come later when the settlement was founded.
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Thank you so much!Really useful, thank you!
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