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Loire

UK/ˈlwɑː(ɹ)/ US/ləˈwɑː(ɹ)/ rare

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a French river; flows into the North Atlantic

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From French Loire, from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.

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