gastel

Old French

Alternative forms

wastel

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

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round cake, loaf of bread, wastel
(heraldry) roundel, bezant, gastell

Descendants

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- 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
- Yola: palske, palsk (vulgar)
→ Medieval Latin: wastellus [1196 AD]
→ Sicilian: guastedda

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