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gournay-en-bray

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.38 in modern English

Syllables
gour-nay-en-bray
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.

Etymology

From French, attested as Old French Gornai in 1049. * The first element is probably of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *gorn (“fishery, reach”) + *-ako, Latinized as Latin -acum. * The second element was added in 1962 to avoid confusion with Gournay-le-Guérin in the department of Eure. It references Pays de Bray and is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *braco, for which see braye (“mud, daub”).

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Word Breakdown

Questions

What does gournay-en-bray mean?
A commune in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
Where does gournay-en-bray come from?
It is traced to French.

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