Words that come from Gaulish cantos

322 words across 53 languages descend from Gaulish cantos — including chant, cant, canteen, shanty, cantilever, canto, canter, decanter.

See the etymology of cantos itself →

English (74)

Italian (21)

German (21)

Swedish (20)

Spanish (18)

Finnish (18)

Norwegian Bokmål (17)

French (14)

Norwegian Nynorsk (14)

Galician (8)

Danish (8)

Polish (8)

Romanian (8)

Turkish (6)

Irish (5)

Tagalog (4)

Catalan (3)

Cebuano (3)

Middle English (3)

Latin (2)

Dutch (2)

Albanian (2)

Russian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Old French (2)

Norman (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Vietnamese (2)

Middle Dutch (2)

Middle Low German (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Asturian (2)

Maltese (2)

Indonesian (2)

Chinese (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Venetian (1)

Hausa (1)

Walloon (1)

Middle French (1)

Low German (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Persian (1)

Plautdietsch (1)

Middle Scots (1)

Xhosa (1)

Swahili (1)

Livonian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Yiddish (1)

Hindi (1)

Thai (1)