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Where does “guinguette” come from?

guinguette (English) comes from French guinguette, from French guinguet, from French ginguer, from French giguer, from French gigue, from Old French gige, from Frankish gīge, from Proto-Germanic gīganą.

guinguette (English): A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the...

Definitions

  1. A sort of outdoor tavern that once existed in the...

Ancestry of “guinguette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchguinguetteguinguette
2FrenchguinguetA rough wine produced near Paris
3Frenchginguer—
4Frenchgiguerto dance the jig; to dance, gambol, prance,...
5Frenchgiguestring instrument, roughly in the form of a...
6Old Frenchgige—
7Frankishgīgedance, fiddle
8Proto-Germanicgīganąto move, wish, desire
9Proto-Indo-Europeangʰeyǵʰ-—
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