Notre Dame Bay

English

Etymology

Partial calque of French baie Notre-Dame (literally “Our Lady Bay”), itself possibly a calque of an earlier Portuguese name.[1]

Proper noun

Notre Dame Bay

  1. A large bay on the north coast of Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

References

  1. ^ William B[aillie] Hamilton (1996), “Notre Dame Bay”, in Place Names of Atlantic Canada, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 239, column 2: “Although the name, translated as ‘Our Lady Bay,’ would appear to be French, it may be even older than the arrival in Newfoundland of Breton and Norman fishermen. Notre Dame Bay is thus possibly a French translation of an earlier Portuguese place name.”
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