Escoville is a
commune in the
Calvados
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department in the
Normandy
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region
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in northwestern
France
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, with a population of 803 people as of 2017.
Population
Geography
Escoville is located 5 kilometers north of Troarn, 11 kilometers northeast of
Caen
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, 14 kilometers south of Cabourg, and 35 kilometers from Deauville. Escoville is part of the urban area of
Caen
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.
Toponymy
The name of the locality is attested in the form ''Scotvilla'' in 1101 (note AG according to the Red Cartulary of Troarn) ; ''Escoldivilla'' in 1109 (Dictionnaire topographique, according to the cartulary of Troarn) ; ''Scolvilla'' in 1156 - 1161 (act H 2, 169); ''Escotvilla'' in 1201 (AC,H 941) ; ''Ecovilla'' in 1128 (charter of Sainte-Barbe) ; ''Escovilla'' in 1208 (Charter of the abbey of Aunay).
[François de Beaurepaire préface Michel Tamine), ''Les noms de lieux du Calvados'' (''annotated by Dominique Fournier''), Paris, ]L'Harmattan
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, 2022, p. 172
Albert Dauzat
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An ''alethony ...
and, following him,
Ernest Nègre consider that the first element ''Escold-'' represents the
Germanic personal name ''Ascald(us)'',
[ Marie-Thérèse Morlet, ''Personal names in the territory of ancient Gaul'', I, 42b.] variant form ''Ascolt'',
Albert Dauzat
Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics
Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use.
An ''alethony ...
and Charles Rostaing, ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France'', Paris, Librairie Guénégaud 1979 (réédition), p. 270b while there is no ancient form in ''As-''. Furthermore, they did not know the first form ''Scotvilla'', which is entirely compatible with the evolutions ''Escotvilla'' > ''Ecovilla'' (type ''scola'' > ''escole'' > ''école''), but not really with ''*Ascaldvilla'' > ''Escoldivilla'' or ''*Ascoltvilla'' > ''Escoldivilla'', we should end up in ''*Escauville'' in one case and ''*Escouville'' in the other. This is why François de Beaurepaire identifies the ethnic ''scot'' as "Scottish" (''Scot'' as "the Scotsman" cf. surname ''Lescot'', modern French ''l'Écossais'').
Homonymy with Escoville (Seine-Maritime,
Saint-Laurent-de-Brèvedent
Saint-Laurent-de-Brèvedent () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
Geography
A village of farming and forestry, by the banks of the St.Laurent river, in the Pays de Caux, situated some nort ...
, ''Escoville par. de Saint-Laurent d’Esquetot'', 1558). The name ''(E)scoville'' has evolved into the
English last names ''Scoville'' (Anglo-Norman form), ''Scovill, Scoffield, Schofield, and Scourfield''.
See also
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Communes of the Calvados department
The following is a list of the 526 Communes of France, communes of the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities ...
References
External links
Official site
Communes of Calvados (department)
Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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