Dieppe

dieppe English <dab!> Etymology en enm Depe, from en frm Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern fr Dieppe.II 133 653 A special case of the latter is Dieppe, which in the seventeenth century was pronounced with [iː], being equated with deep in the ‘homophone’ lists of Hodges, Hunt, Fox and Hookes, Strong, Cooper, and Brown. The PresE pronunciation [di(ː)ep] or [djep] is a reformation after Modern French—an all-too-common process in foreign place-names. The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Pronunciation en /diˈɛp/ /djɛp/ en Di eppe en ɛp 2 en /diːp/<a:Early Modern><ref:<<name:Dobson>>> Proper noun en coastal town dept/Seine-Maritime r/Normandy c/France. en-GB Andrew Gumbel Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine The Guardian 2021-05-09 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/09/raid-on-dieppe-masked-secret-mission-to-steal-nazis-enigma-machine 0261-3077 Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018052619/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/09/raid-on-dieppe-masked-secret-mission-to-steal-nazis-enigma-machine 18 October 2026 en city county/Westmorland County p/New Brunswick c/Canada. From 1946 en Leger Corner<qq:historical> Translations town in Normandy, France French: fr Dieppe f German: de Dieppe n Japanese: ja ディエップ Dieppu Korean: ko 디에프 diepeu Latin: la Dieppa f Marathi: mr डिएप n Norman: nrf Dgieppe f, nrf Dieppe f Spanish: es Dieppe f, es Diepa f city in New Brunswick, Canada French: fr Dieppe f Japanese: ja ディエップ Dieppu Korean: ko 디에프 diepeu Marathi: mr डिएप n References French fr: Etymology fr frm Diepe, from fr fro Diepe, (originally a hydronym) from fr non djúpr deep or a fr gmw - cognate. Compare la-med Dieppa, la Deupa. The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942. Pronunciation fr Fr-Paris--Dieppe.ogg Paris fr Dieppe fr ɛp 1 Proper noun f fr coastal town dept/Seine-Maritime r/Normandy c/France fr city county/Westmorland County p/New Brunswick c/Canada. From 1946 fr Leger Corner<qq:historical> Derived terms fr Dieppois, fr Dieppoise