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Yonne

Today it means: A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Auxerre. Full definition →

French Yonne ← Latin Icaunis

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Latin · derived fromIcaunis
French · borrowed fromYonne
English todayYonne

Borrowed from French Yonne, from Latin Icaunis, presumably from Gaulish.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.