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Auvergne

/o.vɛʁɲ/

proper noun/o.vɛʁɲ/

Auvergne (a former administrative region and historical province of France, since 2016 part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)

From Occitan Auvèrnhe or Auvèrnha, itself a calque of Latin Arvernicus pagus, from the Arverni, the name of a Gaulish tribe.