bascle

== Middle French == === Alternative forms === bascon, bascot, bascles === Etymology === Inherited from Old French bascle. === Noun === bascle m (plural bascles or basclois) Basque (person) Basque Country idem, MS Besançon 865, SHF edition chapter 3-268: Et passerent oultre le comble de Pampelune et les montaignes de Raincevaulx, et entrerent en Bascle et cheminerent tant que ilz vindrent a Bayonne. bastard === References === basque1 on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French) J.-A.-C. Buchon, editor (1853), “Table de noms des villes etc”, in Les chroniques de Sire Jean Froissart qui traitent des merveilleuses emprises... avec notes, éclaircissements, tables et glossaire, page LI Godefroy, Frédéric (1901), Lexique de l'ancien français, page 48 == Old French == === Alternative forms === baskele, baskle Bascol, Bascoul, Bascul, as a component in names and personal titles. === Etymology === Possibly from Gascon *bascne or basclon, from Medieval Latin Basclos, Basculos, from Classical Latin Vascōnes. See basque for more. === Noun === bascle m (plural bascles or basclois) (Anglo-Norman) Basque (person) === References === “bascle”, in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022–2026 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “bandit”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 23: Inconnus, pages 127–128