Campaniacum

Campaniacum was an etymon of numerous toponyms in France.

Ernest Nègre, author of "Toponymie générale de la France" indicated that the anthroponym form of the Roman word "Campanius" and the Gaulish origin -acum

The name "Campanius" and with the "gens" name (the equivalent of a family name used by Romans). By "Campani-us" along with another form *"Campani-ac-um". The i is an importance with the phonetic evolution of *"Campaniacum".

These different results with diverse phonetic evolutions of dialects of the langue d'oïl and the langue d'oc and by region:

*Campagnac : § 7029 from E. Nègre
*Campénéac (Morbihan) : § 7535 from E. Nègre
*Campigny : § 8819 from E. Nègre
*Champagnac : § 7061 and § 7438 from E. Nègre
*Champagnat : § 7612 and § 8480 from E. Nègre
*Champagné: § 8133 from E. Nègre
*Champagneux : § 8537 from E. Nègre
*Champagney : § 7873 from E. Nègre
*Champagny : § 8868 from E. Nègre
*Champigny : § 8868 from E. Nègre

*Campaniacum comports an initial group Ca-: with k and a and with ch with the large part of the ancient Gaul and its langue d'oïl dialects along with the langue d'oc dialects. In the north of the ancient Gaul existed an unlimited band by the Joret line. In the south of the ancient Gaul (langue d'oc).

The form Champigny which is purely French (Champigny-sur-Marne) is situated by the Val-de-Marne). Gaston Zink on the "Phonétique historique du français" ("French Phonetic History") , 1986 had an explanation (page 194) for the sequence ign and the palatized ñ ("gn" in French) and a.

ee also

* Champignac
* Pourceaugnac