Saint-Malo

English

Proper noun

Saint-Malo

  1. A walled port city in Ille-et-Vilaine department, on the north coast of Brittany, France.

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French

Etymology

Said 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
  • IPA(key): /sɛ̃.ma.lo/
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Proper noun

Saint-Malo m

  1. Saint-Malo (a city in Brittany, France)

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References
  1. Léon Fleuriot, Les Origines de la Bretagne, ed. Payot, 1982, p. 150 and 281
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