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Caen

/kɑ̃/

proper noun/kɑ̃/

Caen (a city and commune, the prefecture of the department of Calvados, France)

Related: Caennais, caennais, tripes à la mode de Caen

Inherited from Old French Caem, Cahom, likely inherited from Latin *Catumagus, from Gaulish *catu-, a word used to describe military activity (see Proto-Celtic *katus), + *magos (“field”).