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The name ''Wigan'' is probably a [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] place-name : it might be a diminutive form of Brittonic ''*wīg'' "homestead, settlement" (later Welsh ''gwig'').<ref>{{Citation |title=Newsletter 15: Wigan – What's in a name? |date=15 July 1998 |url=http://www.wiganarchsoc.co.uk/content/News_Letters/news015.htm |access-date=18 November 2008 |publisher=Wigan Archaeological Society}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Mills |first=A.D. |title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?entry=t40.e13974&srn=1&ssid=595401713#FIRSTHIT |year=2003 |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-852758-9}} {{Subscription required}}</ref> It has also been suggested directly a Celtic personal name ''Wigan'', a name corresponding to [[Gaulish language|Gaulish]] ''Vicanus'', [[Old Welsh]] ''Uuicant'' or [[Old Breton]] ''Uuicon''.<ref name="pnlanc">{{Cite book |last=Ekwall |first=Eilert |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028039588 |title=The Place Names Of Lancashire |date=1922 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028039588/page/n120 103]}}</ref> plus the nominal suffix ''-an'' has also been suggested (c.f. numerous places in France named [[Le Vigan (disambiguation)|Le Vigan]]).<ref>{{Cite book |last=James |first=Alan G. |url=http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |title=The Brittonic Language in the Old North: A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence |volume=2: Guide to the Elements |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170813011121/http://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary.pdf |archive-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>
The English place-name Wigan has nothing to do with [[Le Vigan (disambiguation)|Le Vigan]] in the south of France, such as [[Le Vigan, Gard]] (''Avicantus'', Roman inscription ; ''Locus de Vicano'' 1050) of unknown origin<ref>Paul Fabre, ''Dictionnaire des noms de lieux des Cévennes'', éditions Bonneton, 2009, p. 155</ref> and [[Le Vigan, Lot]], from Latin ''vicanum'', diminutive form of ''vicus'' "town",<ref>Gaston Bazalgues, ''À la découverte des noms de lieux du Quercy'' : ''Toponymie lotoise'', Éditions de la Bouriane et du Quercy, Gourdon, 2002, p. 126</ref> but with different hamlets in [[Normandy]] such as (Le) Vigan ([[L'Oudon]], Calvados) and Manoir du Vigan..that represent really the Celtic personal name ''Wigan'', found as ''feodum Wigani'' in the 12th century or ''turres Wiguen'' at [[Thaon]] (Calvados) and survives in the Norman surname ''Vigan'' (still in use in Calvados).<ref>François de Beaurepaire, ''Les Noms de lieux du Calvados'' (''annoté par [[Dominique Fournier]]''), Paris, [[Éditions L'Harmattan|L'Harmattan]], 2022, p. 379.</ref>
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