The
Gaulish language
Gaulish was an ancient Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzer ...
, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in
French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e.
Franco-Provençal
Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a language within Gallo-Romance originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.
Franco-Provençal has several distinct dialects and is separ ...
(Eastern France and Western Switzerland),
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language
Occitan (; o ...
(Southern France),
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
,
Romansch,
Gallo-Italic
The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy. They are Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol. Although most publications de ...
(Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known as ''
langues d'oïl'' (e.g.
Walloon,
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
,
Gallo
Gallo may refer to:
*Related to Gaul:
** Gallo-Roman culture
**Gallo language, a regional language of France
**Gallo-Romance, a branch of Romance languages
**Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language, a branch spoken in Northern Italy of the Romance ...
,
Picard, Bourguignon, and
Poitevin).
What follows is a list of inherited French words, past and present, along with words in neighboring or related languages, all borrowed from the Gaulish language (or more precisely from a
substrate of Gaulish).
Modern French
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Old French
Regional Languages (patois) and Neighboring Languages
See also
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History of French
French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.
The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history ...
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List of Spanish words of Celtic origin
This is a list of Spanish words of Celtic origin. It is further divided into words that are known (or thought) to have come from Gaulish and those that have come from an undetermined Celtic source. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwor ...
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List of Galician words of Celtic origin
This is a list of Galician words of Celtic origin, many of them being shared with Portuguese (sometimes with minor differences) since both languages are from medieval Galician-Portuguese. A few of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from ...
*
List of French words of Germanic origin
This is a list of Standard French words and phrases deriving from any Germanic language of any period, whether incorporated in the formation of the French language or borrowed at any time thereafter.
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French is a Romance languages, Romance l ...
Bibliography
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Delamarre, Xavier. ''Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental'', 2nd edn. Paris: Errance, 2003 (1st edn. 2001).
* Deshayes, Albert. ''Dictionnaire étymologique du breton''. Douarnenez, France: Le Chasse-Marée, 2003.
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Dottin, Georges. ''La langue gauloise: Grammaire, textes et glossaire'', preface de
François Falc'hun
François Falc'hun (20 April 1901 – 13 January 1991) was a French linguist known for his theories about the origin of the Breton language. He was also an ordained Canon in the Catholic clergy.
Falc'hun was professor at the Universities of Renn ...
. Paris: C. Klincksieck, 1920 (reprint Geneva, 1985).
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Lambert, Pierre-Yves. ''La Langue gauloise''. Paris: Errance, 1994.
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Savignac, Jean-Paul. ''Dictionnaire français-gaulois''. Paris: La Différence, 2004.
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von Wartburg, Walther. ''
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch
The ''Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch'' (german: French Etymological Dictionary) or FEW is the principal etymological dictionary of the Gallo-Romance languages (such as French). It was the brainchild of the Swiss philologist Walther vo ...
''. 25 vols. Bonn: Klopp; Heidelberg: Carl Winter; Leipzig–Berlin: Teubner; Basel: R. G. Zbinden, 1922–67.
References
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Gaulish
Gaulish was an ancient Celtic languages, Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium ...
French
French Gaulish
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