Where does “espaignol” come from?
espaignol (Middle French) comes from Old French espagneul, from Old Occitan espaignol, from Vulgar Latin Hispaniolus, from Latin Hispānus, from Latin Hispānia, from Punic אי שפן — coast of hyraxes.
espaignol (Middle French): Spanish
Ancestry of “espaignol”, step by step