Source etymology 1
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe capital and largest city of France. · A department of Île-de-France, France. · The government of France. · A hamlet in Jutland, Denmark.
From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.
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