Etymology

Normandy

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Today it means: An administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy. Full definition →

Middle English Normandie ← Old English Normandiġ ← Old French Normendie
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  1. Germanic · derived from
  2. Old French · derived fromNormendie
  3. Old English · inherited fromNormandiġ
  4. Middle English · inherited fromNormandie
  5. English todayNormandy

From Middle English Normandie, Normandye, from Old English Normandiġ, from Old French Normendie, from normant + -ie. Compare Old Norse Norðmanndi (“Normandy”). Normant refers to the Germanic words for 'north' and 'man', as the original Normans were of Scandinavian origin. More at Norman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.