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  2. Category:Surnames of French origin - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Surnames of French origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 455 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Category:French-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,735 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  4. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Champaign (from Champaigne, a French surname) Chicago, although not a French place name in itself, shikaakwa or "wild onion" in the Native-American Miami-Illinois language, the pronunciation of the "chi" (as opposed to the "chi" as in China) is the result of early French settlement; Claremont ("Clear Mountain") [85] Colmar (after the Alsatian ...

  5. Category:French surnames - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects ... Help. This category is located at Category:Surnames of French origin. Note: This category should be ... This page was last ...

  6. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche

  7. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...

  8. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).

  9. French name - Wikipedia

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    French names typically consist of one or multiple given names, and a surname. One given name, usually the first, and the surname are used in a person's daily life, with the other given names used mainly in official documents. Middle names, in the English sense, do not exist. Initials are not used to represent second or further given names.