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This is a list of German words and expressions of French origin. Some of them were borrowed in medieval times, some were introduced by Huguenot immigrants in the 17th and 18th centuries and others have been borrowed in the 19th and 20th centuries. German Wiktionary lists about 120,000 German words without declensions and conjugations. Of these ...
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).
Romanisation: Francia: Language(s) French: Origin; Language(s) Developed from the settlement of Romanized Franks in Île-de-France.: Word/name: Due to the influence of Paris as capital of France, its Romance language gradually spread over the whole country as a standard language, especially after the French Revolution.
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).
Frankish; Old Franconian, Old Frankish *Frenkisk Native to: Francia: Region: Western Europe: Ethnicity: Franks: Era: Gradually evolved into Old Low Franconian and the Old High Franconian dialects (Rhine Franconian, East Franconian and Central Franconian) by the 9th century, [1] [2] which dissolved with other West Germanic varieties into Old High German, and influenced Old French as a superstrate.
The Alamans were competitors of the Franks, and their name is the origin of the French word for "German": Allemand. By the early 6th century, the Franks, led by the Merovingian king Clovis I and his sons, had consolidated their hold on much of modern-day France.
French, German, Dutch: Origin; Language(s) Developed from Proto-Germanic, loaned into Latin: Word/name: Either endonym, self-assigned by the confederacy, or exonym, assigned by the Romans: Meaning: Either the weapon of the Frankish mercenaries or "bold" Region of origin: Western Europe, Lower and Middle Rhine regions: Other names; Anglicisation ...