Liège (the largest city and provincial capital of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium) · Liège (a province of Wallonia, Belgium) · Liège (an arrondissement of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium)
köken: Derived from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”).
köken: Perhaps from Limburgish Luuk or an older pronunciation of Dutch Luik. Compare dated Central Franconian Lück, Lick. Old inheritance should have yielded *Liddech or *Leidech as in German Lüttich. It is clear that many Dutch-speakers travelled to and resided at Liège, and plausible that the more eastern and southern areas may have adopted the name of the city from these fellow Germanic-speakers…