Breton
names are used in the region of Brittany in northwest France.
Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.
BANGLADESH (Country) Bengali, Armenian, Basque, Breton, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swahili, Swedish, UzbekFrom Bengali বাংলাদেশ
(Bangladeś) meaning "land of the Bengalis", from the name of the Bengali people and Sanskrit देश
(deśá) meaning "country, kingdom, land, state"...
[more] BURUNDI (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, UkrainianThe name of the Country in East Africa. Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
DORTMUND (Settlement) English, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, WelshFirst mentioned in the 9th century AD as
Throtmanni, of uncertain origin and meaning, the form
Dortmunde first appeared in the 13th century. This is the name of a city in western Germany.
GRAN CANARIA (Island) Spanish, English, Esperanto, Dutch, Welsh, Breton, Asturian, Aragonese, German, Estonian, Faroese, Galician, Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Icelandic, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Scots, SloveneFrom Spanish
gran "grande, great" and
Canaria referring to the
CANARY ISLANDS. Gran Canaria is the third largest and second most populous island of the Canary Islands.
ISLAND (Country & Island) Bosnian, Breton, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, German, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Serbian, Slovak, SwedishForm of
ICELAND.
LIHOU (Island) Norman, BretonIsland in the Channel Islands in
ENGLAND. From the Breton words 'lydd' or 'ligg', meaning "in or near water", and the Norman suffix -'hou', meaning "island". The island and reef in
AUSTRALIA named after this island.
LONGYEARBYEN (Settlement) Norwegian, English, Afrikaans, Asturian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Malay, Manx, Maori, North Frisian, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sami, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Silesian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, West FrisianMeans "The Longyear town" in Norwegian. Longyearbyen is the main settlement of the Norwegian archipelago
SVALBARD in the Arctic Ocean. The town was named after American businessman John Munro
LONGYEAR (1850-1922) whose company helped develop the settlement.
MINQUIER (Island) Breton, Norman, EnglishAn island chain in the Channel Islands,
ENGLAND. Could be from Breton 'minihi', meaning "sanctuary, or from 'minkier' meaning "seller of fish".
SÁPMI (Region) Sami, Swedish, English, German, Breton, Faroese, Manx, Scots, VietnamesePerhaps ultimately derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
*źemē meaning "earth".
Suomi, the Finnish name for Finland, is believed to be derived from the same root...
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