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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 ...
je dirai - I will say; je dirais - I would say; je le connais - I know him; je le di - I say so; je me disais - I thought; je me suis collé - I stuck; je n'en ai pas - I do not have any; je ne veux pas vous raconter - I don't want to tell you; je pose - I ask; je tenais - I held; jeter - to throw away; je vous aimerai toujours - I will always ...
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).
Only the AHD lists the word without the accent as the secondary (not preferred) spelling. (AHD shows it hyphenated, the OED does not.) demi-glaze. is a single word in English, but comprised of two French words, demi and glaze. OED lists this, the AHD does not. I confess to being troubled by chauvinism. While I recognize the french word ends in ...
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 from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
An athletic event, from the Gaelic word "cabar" which refers to a wooden pole. Cailleach An old woman, a hag, or a particular ancient goddess. Cairn [1] From càrn. The word's meaning is much broader in Gaelic, and is also used for certain types of rocky mountains. Caman a shinty stick. Capercaillie
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From Irish Seoinín, a little John (in a Gaelic version of the English form, Seon, not the Irish Seán). Sidhe (Modern Sí) – the fairies, fairyland. slauntiagh – An obsolete word for sureties or guarantees, which comes from Irish sláinteacha with the same meaning. sleeveen, sleiveen – (from slíbhín) an untrustworthy or cunning person ...