Gascony

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Gascoigne, from Gasconia, from Wasconia, from Vasconia from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Vascones, plural of Vasco, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Οὐασκώνων (Ouaskṓnōn), as used by Strabo in his Geographica (23 CE), Book III. either from αἴξ (aíx, “goat”) (literally “he-goat people”), or variant of Ausci (perhaps related to Euskara). Cognate to Basque (compare to Gascon).

For sound changes: /v/ → /w/ occurred in the change from Latin to Proto-Romance, while /w/ → /g/ common in (non-Iberian) Romance languages, notably French; compare warranty and guarantee, William and Guillaume. By contrast, /v/ developed into /b/ and /β̞/ in Spanish and Gascon, under influence of Basque, hence the divergence.

Proper noun

Gascony

1. A former region in France that was eliminated during the French revolution.

Translations

Former region of France

• Aragonese: Gascunya f
• Armenian: Գասկոն (Gaskon)
• Basque: Gaskoinia
• Belarusian: Гаско́нь f (Haskónʹ)
• Breton: Gwaskogn f
• Bulgarian: Гаскония f (Gaskonija), Гаскона f (Gaskona)
• Catalan: Gascunya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加斯科涅 (Jiāsīkēniè)

• Czech: Gaskoňsko n
• Esperanto: Gaskonio
• French: Gascogne (fr) f
• Georgian: გასკონი (gasḳoni)
• German: Gascogne (de) f
• Greek: Γασκώνη f (Gaskóni)
• Ido: Gaskonia (io)
• Italian: Guascogna f
• Japanese: ガスコーニュ (Gasukōnyu)
• Korean: 가스코뉴 (gaseukonyu)
• Kurdish:
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• Lithuanian: Gaskonė f, Gaskonija f
• Norman: Gascongne f
• Occitan: Gasconha (oc) f
• Polish: Gaskonia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gasconha f
• Romanian: Gasconia f
• Russian: Гаско́нь f (Gaskónʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гаскоња f

  Roman: Gaskonja f

• Sicilian: Gascògna f
• Slovak: Gaskonsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Gaskonja f
• Spanish: Gascuña f
• Tagalog: Gascuña
• Thai: กัสกอญ (gàt-gon)
• Turkish: Gaskonya
• Ukrainian: Гаско́нь f (Haskónʹ)
• Venetian: Vascogna f
• Welsh: Gasgwyn f