gastel

Old French

Alternative forms

• wastel

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *wastil, from Proto-Germanic *wastiliz, *wistiliz, from *wistiz (“food, feast”) +‎ *-ilaz (“diminutive suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to eat”).

Noun

gastel oblique singular, m (oblique plural gasteaus or gasteax or gastiaus or gastiax or gastels, nominative singular gasteaus or gasteax or gastiaus or gastiax or gastels, nominative plural gastel)

1. round cake, loaf of bread, wastel
2. (heraldry) roundel, bezant, gastell

Descendants

• Middle French: gastel, gasteau
  • French: gâteau
• Bourguignon: gaîteâ
• Gallo: gastèu (Gallo)
• Picard: wâtiau (Artois), wâtieu (Amiens)
• Walloon: gatau (Charleroi), wastê (Forrières, Liégeois), wastea
• Norman: wâtel
• → Middle English: wastel
  • English: wastel
  • Yola: palske, palsk (vulgar)
• → Medieval Latin: wastellus [1196 AD]
• → Sicilian: guastedda