The words of Portuguese origin in French

Piotr Sorbet

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

Abstract

The language relations between France and lusophone countries, especially Portugal, have a long tradition. Without a doubt, these relations have led Iberian languages to borrow more from French than vice versa. However, Portuguese has also contributed many words to French over centuries. Certainly, not all of these words come ultimately from the Iberian Peninsula but Portugal has played the role of intermediary between French and, Portuguese in its non-European variants as well as certain American, African and Asian languages. Thus, the main focus of this paper is the study of words which can be roughly classified as lusophonisms.

Keywords:

loanwords, lusophonisms, etymology, language contacts