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cassanos
cassanos
Gaulish
Noun
cassanos
needs gender
an
oak
(tree)
oak
(wood)
Descendants
Latin:
casnus
(
Mediaeval
)
,
*cassanus
Franco-Provençal:
châno
Occitan:
casse
Old French:
chesne
,
chaisne
,
chasne
Middle French:
chesne
French:
chêne
References
Xavier Delamarre,
Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental
, published 2003, ISBN 2-87772-237-6, page 109.
Etymology
From
*cass-
‘twist’ (compare Irish
cas
‘to twist’, Old Welsh
cas
cord ‘id.’).
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