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Have you ever wondered how things are named? Many people enjoy tracing their family name back in time to see where they have come from and to find out the significance of their name. Well, what about towns? Their names must have some sort of meaning, too.
Let's trace the name of "Ambialet" back in time. The word itself has Gallic (Celtic) and Latin roots:
Let's trace the name of "Ambialet" back in time. The word itself has Gallic (Celtic) and Latin roots:
From the Gallic language comes ambileto, which means ‘ring yoke.’
From Latin comes ambi meaning ‘around’ and leto meaning ‘flow.’
Ambialet is a Presqu’ île, meaning ‘almost island.’ Therefore, these words were put together to form the name Ambialet in which water flows around the town. Very clever!
Latin was the spoken and written language of the Romans, who governed this part of France (and most of Europe) for centuries, until roughly the 5th century. Gallic was the language spoken by the "Gauls," peoples who had settled in the region of France before the Roman period. That Ambialet has both Gallic and Latin roots tells us something about the union and mixing of different peoples and cultures in this region many centuries ago.
Latin was the spoken and written language of the Romans, who governed this part of France (and most of Europe) for centuries, until roughly the 5th century. Gallic was the language spoken by the "Gauls," peoples who had settled in the region of France before the Roman period. That Ambialet has both Gallic and Latin roots tells us something about the union and mixing of different peoples and cultures in this region many centuries ago.
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["Les Fontaines" in Ambialet prestígíeux et secret, p. 29]
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