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According to André Maurois and Philibert Auberrand, the original family name Balssa came from the radical bals which in Occitan means "steep rock". [2] [3] Another commonly admitted theory is that Balssa came from the Occitan balsan, derived from Late Latin balteanus, describing a horse with white patches on its paws.
Pages in category "Occitan-language surnames" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Arnal;
The Occitan language is still used to varying levels by between 100,000 and 800,000 speakers in southern France and northern Italy. Since 2006, the Occitan language is recognized as one of the official languages in Catalonia , an autonomous region of Spain.
Old Occitan (Modern Occitan: occitan ancian, Catalan: occità antic), also called Old Provençal, was the earliest form of the Occitano-Romance languages, as attested in writings dating from the 8th to the 14th centuries.
The name Occitan comes from the term lenga d'òc ("language of òc "), òc being the Occitan word for yes. While the term would have been in use orally for some time after the decline of Latin, as far as historical records show, the Italian medieval poet Dante was the first to have recorded the term lingua d'oc in writing.
Pages in category "Occitan nobility" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alfonso II of Toulouse;
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Estelle is a female given name of Occitan origin, and means star. [1]Saint Estelle was a martyr who purportedly lived in Aquitania in the third century AD, although the earliest references to her date from the Middle Ages.