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Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old French bascle.

Noun

bascle m (plural bascles or basclois)

  1. Basque (person)
    • (Can we date this quote?) , Jean Froissart, edited by Ainsworth, Peter, and Godfried Croenen..., Froissart's Chronicles (html), Online Froissart Project, published 2013?, MS Besançon 865, SHF edition chapter 3-53, page folio 249v:
      Adonc fina a tant leur parlement, et pristrent la saisine du chastel, et puis ordonne rent de mettre et laissier dedens gens d’armes et garnison pour le garder, et passerent oultre en entencion de venir devant la ville et chastel de Cruvale, dont Espaignolet de Paperan, Bascles, estoit capitaine, avec lui grant foison de pillars et de robeurs.
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  2. Basque Country
    • (Can we date this quote?) , Jean Froissart, edited by Ainsworth, Peter, and Godfried Croenen, Froissart's Chronicles (html), Online Froissart Project, published 2013?, MS Paris fr. 2560, SHF edition chapter 3-147, page folio 171v:
      Si tost qu’on yst hors du paÿs de Berne, on entre ou paÿs des Bascles, ouquel paÿs le roy d’Angleterre tient grant terre en l’archevesquié de Bourdiaux et en l’evesquié de Bayonne; si ques les Basclois qui se tiennent et tenoient lors du roy d’Angleterre, ... Si envoierent a Orthais quatre hommes, lesquelz estoient chargiéz depar tout le demourant du paÿs pour faire le appaisement. Ces quattre hommes de Bascle compterent a Ernauton du Puy,...Cest Arnoulton du Puy leur ayda a faire ceulx de Bascle leur traittiéz, et payerent tout comptant deux mille francs,
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    • idem, MS Besançon 865, SHF edition chapter 3-268:
      Et passerent oultre le comble de Pampelune et les montaignes de Raincevaulx, et entrerent en Bascle et cheminerent tant que ilz vindrent a Bayonne.
  3. bastard

References

  • basque1 on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • J.-A.-C. Buchon, editor (1853), “Table de noms des villes etc”, in Les chroniques de Sire Jean Froissart qui traitent des merveilleuses emprises... avec notes, éclaircissements, tables et glossaire, page LI
  • Godefroy, Frédéric (1901) Lexique de l'ancien français, page 48

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly from Gascon *bascne or basclon, from Medieval Latin Basclos, Basculos, from Classical Latin Vascōnes. See basque for more.

Noun

bascle m (plural bascles or basclois)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Basque (person)

References

  1. ^ In Gascon Rolls of the 14th century: Gascon Rolls Project: Index
  2. ^ bascle in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022
  3. ^ Beckmann, Gustav A. (2023) Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland”‎, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27: “There was probably an underlying variant Vascǒnes as well as Vascōnes (> Gascons), as Saxǒnes > OF Saisnes or Saxōnes > modern Fr. Saxons, then (with Gascon v- > b-) > *Bascne > Bascle, because there was no /kn/ in OF.”
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