Etymology

Gijón

Today it means: A city on the coast of Asturias, in northwestern Spain. Full definition →

Spanish Gijón ← Asturian Xixón ← Medieval Latin Gigia
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The story

  1. Old Leonese · derived fromPobla de Gigión
  2. Medieval Latin · derived fromGigia
  3. Asturian · derived fromXixón
  4. Spanish · borrowed fromGijón
  5. English todayGijón

From Spanish Gijón, from Asturian Xixón; found in medieval documents as Medieval Latin Gigia and as Old Leonese Pobla de Gigión, but further origins are unclear.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.