Chamonix

English

Proper noun

Chamonix

1. A town in the Haute-Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Translations

town in the département of Haute-Savoie

• Arabic: شاموني m (shamuni)
• Armenian: Շամոնի (Šamoni)
• Azerbaijani: Şamoni
• Belarusian: Шамані m (Šamani)
• Bulgarian: Шамони́ m (Šamoní)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙莫尼 (Shāmòní)

• Franco-Provençal: Chamônix m
• French: Chamonix (fr) m or f
• Georgian: შამონი (šamoni)
• Greek: Σαμονί m (Samoní)
• Japanese: シャモニー (Shamonī)
• Korean: 샤모니 (syamoni)
• Latin: Campus Munitus m
• Latvian: Šamonī m
• Lithuanian: Šamoni m
• Malayalam: ഷമൊനി (ṣamoni)
• Marathi: शामोनि (śāmoni)
• Russian: Шамони́ m (Šamoní)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Цхамони m

  Roman: Šamoni m

• Slovene: Chamonix m
• Ukrainian: Шамоні m (Šamoni)

French

Etymology

From earlier Chamouni, from the Roman name, Latin campus munitus (“fortified field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.mɔ.ni/

Proper noun

Chamonix m or f

1. Chamonix

Derived terms

• chamoniard, Chamoniard

References

• Sherwill, Markham (1832): A brief historical sketch of the valley of Chamouni, Volume 8
• Blackie, Christina (1887): Geographical Etymology: A Dictionary of Place-names Giving Their Derivations

Slovene

Etymology

From French Chamonix.

Proper noun

Chamonix m inan

1. Chamonix

Inflection

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Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Chamonix
genitive	Chamonixa
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Chamonix
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Chamonixa
dative (dajȃlnik)	Chamonixu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Chamonix
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Chamonixu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Chamonixom