Etymology

Port au Choix

Today it means: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Full definition →

French Port au Choix ← Basque portu
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  1. Basque · derived fromportu“port, harbour”
  2. French · derived fromPort au Choix
  3. English todayPort au Choix

From French Port au Choix, a corruption of Basque portu (“port, harbour”) suffixed with the diminutive suffix -txoa. The Basque toponym was reinterpreted to French port (“port”) and choix (“choice”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.