Words that come from Gaulish “baskis”

96 words across 22 languages descend from Gaulish baskis — including basin, bachelor, baccalaureate, bach, washbasin, bachelorhood, subbasin, bachelorette.

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English (29)

Portuguese (10)

French (9)

Norwegian Nynorsk (6)

Latin (5)

Norwegian Bokmål (5)

Polish (4)

Russian (4)

Old French (3)

German (3)

Middle English (3)

Medieval Latin (3)

Danish (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Czech (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Italian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Zulu (1)

Spanish (1)

Norman (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)