Editing Bayonne (section)

===Etymology===
While the modern [[Basque language|Basque]] spelling is ''Baiona'' and the same in [[Gascon language|Gascon]] [[Occitan language|Occitan]],<ref name="Toponimia (leku-izenak)">[http://www.euskaltzaindia.net/index.php?option=com_eoda&view=toponimia&Itemid=471&nonkodea=4.1&lang=fr ''Euskaltzaindia''], Academy of the Basque language, consulted on 5 August 2014 {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref name="AES">[https://aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus/en/baiona/ar-6137/ Baiona], [[Auñamendi Encyclopedia|Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia]] {{in lang|es}}</ref> "the name ''Bayonne'' poses a number of problems both historical and linguistic which have still not been clarified".<ref name="Iglesias">Hector Iglesias, [http://www.ikerketak.com/louvrage-dhector-iglesias-au-format-pdf.php ''Names of Places and people in Bayonne, Anglet and Biarritz in the 18th century''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132340/http://www.ikerketak.com/louvrage-dhector-iglesias-au-format-pdf.php |date=2 April 2015 }}, éditions Elkar, Donostia-Saint-Sébastien, 2000, consulted on 25 July 2014, {{ISBN|2-913156-32-0}}, p. 34 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> There are different interpretations of its meaning.

The termination ''-onne'' in ''Bayonne'' can come from many in hydronyms ''-onne'' or toponyms derived from that. In certain cases the element ''-onne'' follows an Indo-European theme: ''*ud-r/n'' (Greek ''húdōr'' giving hydro, [[Gothic language|Gothic]] ''watt'' meaning "water") hence ''*udnā'' meaning "water" giving ''unna'' then ''onno'' in the glossary of [[Vienna|Vienne]].<ref>Xavier Delamarre, ''Dictionary of the Gallic language. A linguistic approach to continental old Celtic'', éditions Errance, Paris, 2003, {{ISBN|2-87772-237-6}}, p. 48 {{in lang|fr}}</ref> ''Unna'' therefore would refer to the Adour. This toponymic type evoking a river traversing a locality is common. The appellative ''unna'' seems to be found in the name of the [[Garonne]] (''Garunna'' 1st century; ''Garonna'' 4th century). However, it is possible to see a pre-Celtic suffix ''-ona'' in the name of the [[Charente (river)|Charente]] (''Karantona'' in 875) or the [[Charentonne]] (''Carentona'' in 1050).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rsNpi7IVulEC&dq=%22carentona%22&pg=PA34 ''General Toponymy of France''], Ernest Nègre, 28 July 2014 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>

It could also be an augmentative [[Gascon language|Gascon]] from the original [[Latin]] radical ''Baia-'' with the suffix ''-ona'' in the sense of "vast expanse of water" or a name derived from the Basque ''bai'' meaning "river" and ''ona'' meaning "good", hence "good river".

The proposal by Eugene Goyheneche repeated by Manex Goyhenetche and supported by Jean-Baptiste Orpustan is ''bai una'', "the place of the river" or ''bai ona'' "hill by the river"—''Ibai'' means "river" in Basque and ''muinoa'' means "hill".

"It has perhaps been lost from sight that many urban place names in France, from north to south, came from the element ''Bay-'' or ''Bayon-'' such as: [[Bayons]], [[Bayonville]], [[Bayonvillers]] and pose the unusual problem of whether they are Basque or Gascon" adds Pierre Hourmat.<ref group="PiH" name="p3">p. 3.</ref> However, the most ancient form of Bayonne: ''Baiona'', clearly indicates a feminine or a theme of ''-a'' whereas this is not the case for Béon or Bayon. In addition, the ''Bayon-'' in Bayonville or Bayonvillers in northern France is clearly the personal Germanic name ''Baio''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jbpVLN1tRNoC&dq=Bayonville%20ernest%20n7gre&pg=PA926 ''General Toponymy of France''], Ernest Nègre, 28 July 2014 {{in lang|fr}}</ref>