From: tgpedersen
Message: 49565
Date: 2007-08-19
>Do you have a source for that derivation?
> > As for p-less etymology in supposedly "Belgian" :
> > remes < prem "those at the front".
>
> Possible. Ethnonym? Toponym? Hydronym?
>
> In general, cities are named after the tribe : genitive (+ urbs)
> so the modern city of Reims must be from a tribe's name