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Auxerre.

Auxerre (a city and commune of Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

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name/o.sɛʁ/
  1. Auxerre (a city and commune of Yonne department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French Aucerre, Auçoire, from Old French Auçuerre, Ausuerre, from Latin Autessiodurum. Like Nanterre, the modern form displays a regional development of Old French -ue- to /(w)ɛ/; expected Auceurre is found in Middle French.

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