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The Gaulish language, 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 (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Gaulish is an extinct 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 Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
A: English name Names in different languages Abkhazia: Abcasia (Italian), Abcázia (Portuguese), Abc'hazia (Breton), Abchasia (Welsh), Abchasië (Afrikaans ...
A table of vowels with pronunciations in the IPA; Spelling Pronunciation Scottish English [SSE] equivalents As in a, á [a], [a] cat: bata, ás: à [aː] father/calm
from Old French batre (="to beat, strike"), ultimately from Gaulish. [4] battery from Latin battuere via French, from the same Gaulish origin as "batter". [5] beak from Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish beccos. [6] beret from French béret, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin. [7] bilge
Munster Irish (endonym: Gaelainn na Mumhan, Standard Irish: Gaeilge na Mumhan) is the dialect of the Irish language spoken in the province of Munster. Gaeltacht regions in Munster are found in the Gaeltachtaí of the Dingle Peninsula in west County Kerry, in the Iveragh Peninsula in south Kerry, in Cape Clear Island off the coast of west County Cork, in Muskerry West; Cúil Aodha, Ballingeary ...
Orcadian dialect or Orcadian Scots is a dialect of Insular Scots, itself a dialect of the Scots language.It is derived from Lowland Scots, with a degree of Norwegian influence from the Norn language.