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| Axnot | Monday 24th of October 2005 06:50:06 PM |
| The language of the Francs - The Francs (who gave their name to France) were a German tribe so they spoke a German language. If you look at the etymology of French words how many words are to find that date back to the time of the Francs then? Is there anyone here who's interested in subjects like these like me? Je suis dans l'attente de votre respons. | |
| Axnot | Monday 24th of October 2005 07:00:10 PM |
| - Par exemple: The French word ' frais' comes from the West Germanic word 'friskaz' (Old Frisian: fersk, Dutch: vers, German: frisch, English: fresh). In the language of the Francs it should have been 'fres' (fem:fresche) | |
| pableras28 | Tuesday 25th of October 2005 11:18:53 PM |
| - I'm really very interested in etymology, although I know little about French etymology, except for the latin words and expressions. It would be fantastic to read more about this, if you give us that gift. :) | |
| Axnot | Wednesday 26th of October 2005 07:37:48 PM |
| - [quote]I'm really very interested in etymology, although I know little about French etymology, except for the latin words and expressions. It would be fantastic to read more about this, if you give us that gift.[/quote] Great!:) French is a Roman language ofcourse and finding the Latin background is not so hard. The German and Keltic background of the French words is harder to find. French is not my native language so it's hard for me to discouver the German and Keltic background of words. I'll do my best to give more examples in the next days to make others enthousiastic. Greetz, Axnot | |
| Axnot | Friday 28th of October 2005 01:33:28 AM |
| - Le mot Francais 'galloper' à un origine quel est pas Roman. 'Galloper'comes from Germanic (Frankish) 'wala hlaupan' "to run well". In Dutch you could say "wel lopen" or "goed lopen". In Dutch 'lopen' means 'to walk'. There are many words in witch the French changed the first letter 'w' into a 'g'. | |
| Axnot | Friday 28th of October 2005 02:36:25 AM |
| - Est'ce qu'il y a pas des gens Français qui ont un opinion? | |
| Axnot | Monday 17th of July 2006 04:58:43 AM |
| - Je n\'etais pas ici depuis longtemps. Mon question est encore la. | |
| dackel | Monday 17th of July 2006 05:41:21 PM |
| - Hi, this is an interesting question, the Old Frankish Language did not only influence French, but also Spanish, Italian and Portuguese and Latin itself, which quite surprised me, I found it out here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Frankish_language I can\'t contribute more, since I\'m not an expert in this... | |
| Axnot | Monday 17th of July 2006 06:37:47 PM |
| - Hello Dackel, Thank you very much. You already contributed more than any expert! :) | |
