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"Bathgate" is an English loan word in French.

Specifically, the original name of the town is "Boar Wood." It is an English equivalent of the original Cumbrian "baedd coed." The meaning in French is "bois de sanglier" ("wood of a boar").

The respective pronunciations of the English loan word and of the meaning in French are "baht-geht" and "bwah duh saw-glyeh."

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