Campaniacum

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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.