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What are the French names of places in Grenada and their meaning?
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∙ 10y ago
Alphabetically sorted, a list of about 80 French names in Grenada:
Après tout : after all
Anse la Roche (on Carriacou): Rock bay
Barique : barrel
Beaulieu : beautiful place
Beauséjour : beautiful residency
Belle Isle, Belle isles : beautiful island
Belmont : beautiful mount
Belvédère : panorama
Bonaire : good air
Bretache (old French) (on Carriacou): crenel, crenellated battlement
Caille island : quail island
Castaigne : chestnut
Céleste : celestial
Champ Fleurs : flower field
Chapeau Carré (on Carriacou): square hat
Corbeau : raven
Crochu : hooked, crooked
Duquesne : an old French name "from the Oak"
Durmont : hard mountain
Fontainbleu falls : after the town of Fontainebleau, south of Paris
Gouyave, Goyave, Guyave, Gouave : guava
Grand Anse : big bay
Grand Bras : long arms
Grand Mal : bad disease / big evil
Grand Pauvre : Great Poor (an allegory for "Christ")
Grand Roy : great king
Gros Point : big point
l'Anse aux épines : thorn bay, prickly bay
l'Espérance : hope
l'Etage : upstairs
La Baye / La baie : the bay
la Fillette: the little girl
La Fortune : Fortune
La Mode : Fashion
La Pierre : the stone
la Poterie : the potter's
la Sagesse bay : Wisdom bay
la Tante : the aunt
les Tantes (islands) : the aunts
La Borie, Laborie : (an old shepherd hut)
le petit trou : the small hole
Mardi Gras : Fat Tuesday
Marigot : the swamp
Marquis : Marquee
Mirabeau : a place where you have a large view
mon Plaisir : my pleasure
Mon Repos : my rest
Mont Tout, Mont Toute : all mountain
Montreuil : numerous placenames in France
Morne délice : delightful mountain
Morne Docteur : doctor mount
Morne Fendue : cracked mountain
Morne jaloux : jealous mountain
Morne Longue : long mountain
Morne rouge : red mountain
Morne Tranquille : Quiet mountain
Noelville : Christmastown
Nonpareil : without equal
Palmiste : palm tree
Pecher : peach tree
perdmontemps : wastes my time
Petite Anse : small bay
Petite Martinique : Little Martinique (from the name of the large French island in the Carribbean)
petit étang : the pond
Petit Saint Hilaire (on Carriacou): little Saint Hilaire (a place name existing as very numerous villages in France)
Pomme rose : pink apple
Pyrénées : (mountain range separating France from Spain)
Quarrière : a quarry
Ravine : gulch, gully
Requin Bay : Shark bay
Ronde island : round island
Rosemont : rose mount
Saint Cloud (French town near Paris)
Saint-Omer : a town in northern France
Salines : salt pans, salt fields
Sans Souci : without trouble
Sauteurs : jumpers
Soubise : under winter's winds
Terre Cannes : Sugar Cane fields
Vendome : (from the French town Vendôme)
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