Words that come from Gaulish “unknown”

201 words across 52 languages descend from Gaulish unknown — including pinch, mousse, pinchcock, camion, pincher, mousseux, pinchy, pinchpenny.

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English (30)

French (25)

Spanish (17)

Italian (13)

Portuguese (13)

Catalan (10)

Icelandic (9)

Romanian (9)

Serbo-Croatian (5)

Old French (4)

Hungarian (3)

Occitan (3)

Esperanto (3)

Dutch (2)

Czech (2)

Asturian (2)

Galician (2)

Ido (2)

Japanese (2)

Chinese (2)

Vietnamese (2)

German (2)

Papiamentu (2)

Finnish (2)

Norman (2)

Haitian Creole (2)

Mauritian Creole (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Korean (2)

Bulgarian (2)

Turkish (2)

Middle French (1)

Slovene (1)

Sicilian (1)

Georgian (1)

Russian (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Franco-Provençal (1)

Persian (1)

Middle English (1)

Latin (1)

Ligurian (1)

Ottoman Turkish (1)

Tetelcingo Nahuatl (1)

Macanese (1)

Lingala (1)

Moore (1)

Hausa (1)

Tagalog (1)

Nzadi (1)

Arabic (1)

Khmer (1)