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C-G List Of French Words Of Germanic Origin

This list of French words of Germanic origin consists of Standard Modern French words and phrases deriving from any Germanic language of any period.

Scope

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).

Likewise, words which have been calqued from a Germanic tongue (e.g. pardonner, bienvenue, entreprendre, toujours, compagnon, plupart, manuscrit, manoeuvre), or which received their usage or sense (i.e. were created, modified or influenced) due to Germanic speakers or Germanic linguistic habits (e.g. comté, avec, commun, on, panne, avoir, ça) are not included.

Many other Germanic words found in older versions of French, such as Old French and Anglo-French are no longer extant in Standard Modern French. Many of these words do, however, continue to survive dialectally and in English. See: List of English Latinates of Germanic origin.

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Notes

References

  • Auguste Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Third Edition
  • Auguste Scheler, "Dictionnaire d'étymologie française d'après les résultats de la science moderne" (in French)
  • Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (in French)
  • Dictionary.com
  • Friedrich Diez, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages"
  • Dossier des Latinistes, La Greffe Germanique (in French)
  • Thomason, Sarah Grey; Kaufman, Terrence (1991) [1988]. Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics (1st pbk. print. ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07893-2.

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