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Oddly enough, the first resource that directed me to Celtic as the language of origin was the Spanish Wikipedia page on Nancy, France.

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This Geographical Etymology source explains that Nancy is derived from the Celtic word nant, meaning valley:

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http://www.archive.org/stream/geographicaletym00blacuoft/geographicaletym00blacuoft_djvu.txt

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This also explains the etymology:
http://www.speedylook.com/Nancy.html

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And this (an online book):
http://books.google.com/books?id=-KwCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA154&ots=S0aStAuURn&vq=nancy&dq=etymology+Nancy+valley&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html

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Anyway, those were the best sources I came up with. The Latin Nantio/a and Nanceiacum names would have come later when the settlement was founded.

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~~~~~Amanda~~~~~
Midnight stands darkly on the road,
and burdened by stars, tumbles down.
You can't step beyond your fence
without trampling the universe.
-"The Steppe" Boris Pasternak