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Old French

Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century

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Feb 6, 2026

History of the word dicker

The English word traces a long route from decem (“ten”) through for trade into a modern verb meaning “to haggle”; scholars link the noun denoting a bundle of ten (especially hides) to a later American...

Jan 10, 2026

Give to me the ethnology of gentleman

The category "gentleman" began as a marker of birth and clan—derived from Latin gentilis and Old French gentilhomme—before evolving into a cultural ideal that blended lineage, martial role and, later,...