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The Seine ( ; , ) is a long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank). It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by commercial riverboats and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the ''Rive Droite'' and ''Rive Gauche'' within the city of Paris. There are 37 bridges within Paris and dozens more spanning the river outside the city. Examples in Paris include the Pont Louis-Philippe and Pont Neuf, the latter of which dates back to 1607. Outside the city, examples include the Pont de Normandie, one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world, which links Le Havre to Honfleur. ==Origin of the name== The name "Seine" comes from the Latin ''Sequana''.〔A Latinisation of the Gaulish (Celtic) ''Sicauna'', which is argued to mean "sacred river"〕 Some have argued that ''Sicauna'' is cognate to the name of Saône River. On the other hand, a suggested relationship to the River Shannon in Ireland is unlikely, given the very different forms of the two. (Gaelic ''an tSiona'', dative ''Sionainn'', is from Prehistoric Irish *Sinona. Another proposal has it that ''Sequana'' is the Latin version of the Gaulish ''Issicauna'' ''Lower-Icauna'', which would be the diminutive of ''Icauna'', which was the Gaulish name of the Yonne River.) Some believe the ancient Gauls considered the Seine to be a tributary of the Yonne, which indeed presents a greater average discharge than the Seine. (The river flowing through Paris would be called Yonne if the standard rules of geography were applied.) Some identify the river Sikanos, origin (according to Thucydides) of the Sicanoi of Sikelia (Sicily), with the river Sequana (Seine).〔''THE SCOTTISH REVIEW'', vol XIX (Jan–Apr 1892), p. 33〕 According to Pierre-Yves Lambert, a specialist of the Gaulish language, ''Sequana'' retains QV (), that is unusual in Gaulish, which is normally a P-Celtic language, but he compares with the month name EQVOS, read on the Coligny Calendar. The name of the Gaulish tribe ''Sequani'' derives from it.〔Pierre-Yves Lambert, ''La langue gauloise : description linguistique, commentaire d'inscriptions choisies'', Errance, Paris, 1994,(Collection des Hesperides), p34.〕 The digram QV of Sequana could recover a whole syllable, that is to say (),〔LAMBERT 111〕 like ''ucuetis'' (), but its meaning remains unknown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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