department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in the
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
region
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in northwestern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
, with a population of 803 people as of 2017.
Population
Geography
Escoville is located 5 kilometers north of Troarn, 11 kilometers northeast of
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Albert Dauzat
Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics.
Dauzat, a student of Jules Gilliéron, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études.
Works
* ''L'argot des poilus; di ...
and his successor,
Ernest Nègre
Ernest Angély Séraphin Nègre (, born 11 October 1907 in Saint-Julien-Gaulène (Tarn), died 15 April 2000 in Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occ ...
, consider that the first unit ''Escold-'' represents the Germanic personal name ''Ascald(us)'',NPAG, I, 42b. also written as ''Ascolt''.
Note: the evolution ''As- > Es-'' is not certified in the old forms. Perhaps there should be a recourse to an Anglo-Scandinavian anthroponym ''Skoldr/Skoldi''? The prefix ''-esc'' results more often from the regular evolution of ''sk-''. A similar processus is found, for example, in the word ''école'', the French word for “school” (Old French ''escole'' < Latin ''scola'').
The name ''(E)scoville'' has evolved into the
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
last names ''Scoville, Scovill, Scoffield, Schofield, and Scourfield''.