French words from Franco-Provençal
6 French words with Franco-Provençal in their history, whether borrowed directly or passed on through other languages.
avalanche
It is borrowed from Franco-Provençal avalanche, a word of Savoy recorded at Fribourg in 1487, which is the Alpine lavantse reshaped after avaler “to go down” (as in aval “downstream”). The Alpine…
chalet
It is borrowed from Franco-Provençal chalet, a word of the Romand dialects of Switzerland. It first appears there in a Latinized form, chaletus (1328, Vaud), then as chaleis (1379, Valais), chaslet…
crétin
It is borrowed from Franco-Provençal crétin, a word of the Valais and the neighbouring Alpine dialects of French-speaking Switzerland, recorded in Vaud in 1660, where cretinism was endemic. There it…
glacier
It is borrowed from Franco-Provençal glacier, recorded in the Vaud in 1332 and in the Valais in 1349, a derivative of the word for ice, French glace, with the suffix -ier. That noun goes back to…
mordache
The TLFi takes it as probably a borrowing from Franco-Provençal, or less likely from Occitan, of a word meaning “barnacles” (morailles), though no old text records it there: Latin /ki/ normally…
omble
It is borrowed from Franco-Provençal amble, the name of the fish around Neuchâtel, in an altered form. The TLFi calls it a Franco-Provençal word. That word goes back to Late Latin amulus, the name…