gaulois

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.lwa/

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From Middle French, from Old French gualeis (“Welsh”) (compare Old French walois (“langue d'oil”)), from Frankish *walhisk (“Roman”), from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“non-Germanic, foreign”). Cognate with Old High German walahisc (“Roman”), Old English wǣlisċ, wīelisċ (“foreign, Celtic”). More at Welsh, Gaul.

gaulois (feminine gauloise, masculine plural gaulois, feminine plural gauloises)

1. Gaulish

gaulois m (uncountable)

1. Gaulish language

Old French galois, from galer, from Frankish, related to galant.

gaulois (feminine gauloise, masculine plural gaulois, feminine plural gauloises)

1. bawdy

   Synonyms: grivois, licencieux

• galant

• “gaulois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• loguais