Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There’s no “native” French that’s somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic (“gallicus”) roots to be found there.
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Ledivin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wouldn’t the French escale also stem from the latin scala at some point?
b_tr3e@feddit.org 10 months ago
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Few Celtic roots*
For instance char comes from the Celtic carros.
Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 10 months ago
I thought the Arabic influence was all around the mediterranean? At least in architechture some mauric streak is omnipresent there,
DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 10 months ago
smale fischis
I like your funny words, magic man
Quokka@quokk.au 10 months ago
“A frogge bith a smale beaste with foure leggys”
I love how Middle English sounds so silly.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales.
julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
These comments are the reason why I like Lemmy / the Fediverse so much. Thank you!
dontsayaword@piefed.social 10 months ago
Good call. According to wiki, the French escala is descended from the Latin scala (ladder)
Quexotic@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I was curious. Apparently scale as in scale model also comes from the Latin scala. After learning that I went to OED to learn more…
33 meanings. This is where my journey ends today. 🤣