Etymology

ville

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Today it means: A Vietnamese village. Full definition →

French ville
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromville
  2. English todayville

From French ville. Doublet of vill and villa.

Words from the same roots

Frenchville all →

-villeVille Platte

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.