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Pau.

Pau (a city in France)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

name/po/
  1. Pau (a city in France)

    feminine · masculine
Where this word comes from

Possibly related to pieu (“stake, post”), or possibly related to pieux (“pious”), referring to a nearby ford named by the church. Or, possibly from a pre-Indo-European toponym *pal, *bal referring to its location at the foot of the mountains.

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