Etymology

Beaulieu

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Today it means: A village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3802). Full definition →

Old French beau ← French Beaulieu
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromBeaulieu
  2. Old French · derived frombeau“beautiful”
  3. English todayBeaulieu

From Old French beau (“beautiful”) + lieu (“place”), French Beaulieu.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchbeau all →

beauBeaulyBearparkbeaupere

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.