List of English words of French origin (S–Z)

A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language.

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W

Many imported words beginning with "w" in English have cognates in French that start with a "g" or "gu". This is because the English word was not borrowed directly from French or Old French, but from some of the northern langue d'oïl dialects such as Picard and Norman, where the original "w" sound was preserved (the majority of these words are words of Germanic origin, and stem mainly from either the Frankish language, or other ancient Germanic languages, like Burgundian). In Old French, the initial "w" sound was prefixed by the letter "g" as "gw" and then the "w" sound was later lost. The "w" survives in orthography as "u" in "gu", but only to produce a hard "g" sound.

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See also

• French phrases used by English speakers
• Law French
• Glossary of fencing, (predominantly from French).
• Glossary of ballet (predominantly from French)
• Lists of English loanwords by country or language of origin
• List of English words of Gaulish origin
• List of English words of Latin origin
• List of English Latinates of Germanic origin
• List of English words of Frankish origin
• Latin influence in English
• List of French words of Germanic origin
• List of French words of Gaulish origin
• List of French words of Arabic origin

References

External links

• Oxford English Dictionary
• Dictionary.com
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (in French)

1. List of English words of French origin
2. List of English words of French origin (A–C)
3. List of English words of French origin (J–R)
4. List of English words of Arabic origin
5. List of English words of Spanish origin
6. List of English words of Sanskrit origin
7. List of English words of French origin (D–I)
8. List of English words of Old English origin
9. List of English words of Brittonic origin
10. List of English words of Russian origin
11. List of English words of Old Norse origin
12. List of English words of Turkic origin
13. English words of Greek origin
14. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas
15. List of English words of Polish origin
16. List of English words of Dutch origin
17. List of English words of Persian origin
18. List of French words of Arabic origin
19. List of English words of Malay origin
20. List of English words of Arabic origin (T–Z)