Chimay

Chimay · proper noun¹

1. Proto-Celtic · derived from*koimos“pretty, pleasant”
2. French · borrowed fromChimay
3. English todayChimay

From French Chimay, sometimes further derived via Vulgar Latin, from Proto-Celtic *koimos (“pretty, pleasant”).

Chimay · proper noun²

1. Thai · derived fromเชียงใหม่
2. Portuguese · derived fromLago
3. English todayChimay

Variant of earlier Chiamay, from Portuguese Lago de Chiamay in João de Barros's 1553 Décadas da Ásia, Dec. III, Bk. II, presumably from the Chiamay and Chiammay in manuscripts of Fernão Mendes Pinto's Peregrinação, variously referring to an imaginary lake and to the kingdom and town of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, Thai เชียงใหม่ (Chiiang Mai), from เชียง (chiiang, “walled city”) + ใหม่ (mài, “new”).

Words from the same roots