gastel
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastiliz, *wistiliz, from *wistiz (“food, feast”) + *-ilaz (“diminutive suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat”).
Noun
gastel oblique singular, m (oblique plural gasteaus or gasteax or gastiaus or gastiax or gastels, nominative singular gasteaus or gasteax or gastiaus or gastiax or gastels, nominative plural gastel)
Descendants
- Middle French: gastel, gasteau
- French: gâteau
- Bourguignon: gaîteâ
- Gallo: gastèu (Gallo)
- Picard: wâtiau (Artois), wâtieu (Amiens)
- Walloon: gatau (Charleroi), wastê (Forrières, Liégeois), wastea
- Norman: wâtel
- → Middle English: wastel
- English: wastel
- → Medieval Latin: wastellus [1196 AD]
- → Sicilian: guastedda