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) round cake, loaf of bread, wastel (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: wastelEnglish: wastel → Medieval Latin: wastellus [1196 AD] → Sicilian: guastedda