Campaniacum
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Campaniacum was an etymon of numerous toponyms in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Ernest Nègre, author of Toponymie générale de la France
Toponymie générale de la France
Toponymie générale de la France are several books separated in four volumes. It was published by Ernest Nègre. The book is published at Librarie Droz in Geneva, Switzerland...

indicated an origin from the Roman word Campanius and the Gaul
Gaul
Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...

ish -acum. (The i is important in the phonetic evolution of *Campaniacum).

These different results with diverse phonetic evolutions of dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...

s of the langue d'oïl and the langue d'oc and by region:
  • Campagnac : § 7029 from E. Nègre
  • Campénéac
    Campénéac
    Campénéac is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.-External links:* * -References:* *...

     (Morbihan
    Morbihan
    Morbihan is a department in Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan , the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline.-History:...

    ) : § 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
    Champagneux
    Champagneux is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-Population:...

     : § 8537 from E. Nègre
  • Champagney : § 7873 from E. Nègre
  • Champagny
    Champagny
    Champagny is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in Burgandy, eastern France.-Population:-References:*...

     : § 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
    Gaul
    Gaul was a region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, encompassing present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium, most of Switzerland, the western part of Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the left bank of the Rhine. The Gauls were the speakers of...

     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
    Joret line
    The Joret line is an isogloss used in the linguistics of the langues d'oïl. Dialects north of the line have preserved Vulgar Latin and before ; dialects south of the line have palatalized and before . This palatalization gave Old French and , then modern French and...

    . In the south of the ancient Gaul (langue d'oc).


The form Champigny
Champigny, Marne
Champigny is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France....

 which is purely French (Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.-Name:Champigny-sur-Marne was originally called simply Champigny...

) is situated by the Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne is a French department, named after the Marne River, located in the Île-de-France region. The department is situated to the southeast of the city of Paris.- Geography :...

). 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.
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