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Ah, Old lessons coming back to me through Old French and Old High German.
La Chanson de Roland stood at the beginning of our Dutch literature lessons. As one of the earliest "Knight Romances" in Middel Dutch. In fact the anonymous translation of La Chanson de Roland, known as "Roelandslied", dating from the 13th century, so about 200 years after the orignal work.
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link "For example, classical Latin equus was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, derived from Gaulish caballos (Delamare 2003 p.96), giving Modern French cheval, Catalan cavall, Occitan caval (chaval), Italian cavallo, Portuguese cavalo, Spanish caballo, Romanian cal, and (borrowed from Anglo-Norman) English cavalry and chivalry." ( From the article) And Irish: capall.
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And Irish: capall.
This looks like a loan from Latin rather than a survival of a Proto-Celtic word.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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