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Old French Carole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Urban T. Holmes
Urban T. Holmes*
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University of North Carolina
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The chief meanings of this word as registered by Godefroy, are ‘ round dance’ and ‘circle’. The difficulty lies in whether it is to be traced to a Celtic etymon or to the Latin choraules ‘a flute player’. Skeat in the second edition of his English Etymological Dictionary suggested the Celtic origin. He was severely criticized by C. Nigra, in the following terms

Le prof. Skeat appuie son étymologie celtique sur l'autorité du Cornish Lexicon de Williams et cite, entre autres, les termes bret. karoll, corn. carol, gael. carull, etc. [‘song’] dont cependant la provenance française semble bien évident.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1928, pp. 28 - 30
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Copyright © 1928 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française etc., Paris, 1880–1901.

2 First suggested by Diez in his Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen 539 (Bonn, 1878).

3 Rom. 35. 519, note 2.

4 Les Mots latins dans les langues brittoniques 145 (Paris, 1892).

5 A Welsh Grammar 159 (Oxford Press, 1913).

6 Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen 1. 121 (Göttingen, 1909).

7 Macbain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language 71 (Stirling, 1911).

8 Grandgent, An Introduction to Vulgar Latin §186 (Boston, 1907).

9 Pedersen, ibid., 1. 217.

10 See Forcellini Totius latinitatis Lexicon etc., Schneebergae 1831–5.

11 Spurrell's Welsh-English Dictionary, Carmarthen 1920.