Five anglicisms that come to us ... from French

French.

English.

Anglicisms.

This constant back and forth between our two languages ​​is ancestral.

Linguistic exchanges between English-speaking and French-speaking countries have been alive for centuries.

And we are sometimes unaware that some of these anglicisms which nibble more and more the language of Molière are at the origin ... French!

To understand these exchanges, let's go back to 1066.

During the Norman conquest, William the Conqueror imposed French as the language of the Court and of the government.

As told in the columns of

Anthony Lacoudre, author of

:

.

More than 250,000 words thus crossed the Channel to invade English.

Overview.

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● Crush

“This is my crush”

is a popular statement today. The younger generations are particularly fond of it.

,

,

... These words have been swept aside in favor of the

. But did you know that the verb

, which means

, is originally very French? It is borrowed, as the French Academy recalls, from the old French

, one of the many variants of

,

.

If this meaning is a bit more violent than the one we give it today, it is reminiscent of the French metaphors

and

, which illustrate the violence of feelings. that fall on our heads.

● Spoiler

It is an act that should be prohibited by law. Who has never suffered from an unwelcome visitor (

) The end of a story, whether in the cinema or in a novel? The latter is a

. An English word from French. Indeed, the English verb

,

gâcher

,

comes from the old French

, itself from the Latin

. It is from these sources that the current forms of

and

plunder”

come to us

. Fascinating! As for the verb

, it is only a

, we read in the heading Saying, not saying, held by the immortals.

Note that there is a French equivalent to the

: the

.

● Customize

Here again, French is at the origin of this Anglicism.

is very frequently used in French as a synonym for

or

Thus sentences:

. This verb comes from the English

, or

. The latter is first derived from

,

, then

, itself derived from the old French

.

Like a ping-pong ball, the word was therefore born in France, before crossing the Anglo-Saxon borders, then returning with force and noise to us, to the detriment of its French equivalents.

● Hobby

It all started with a story ... of a horse. Leafing through the dictionary, we learn that the word appears in 19th century English in the form of

. He then designated

,

. It is attached to the old French

, which was, at the end of the 12th century, the name given to a white horse. It becomes

(

in English meaning

) to designate a kind of petticoat used in comic or burlesque shows. It then means

or

. This is how the idea of

, in the sense of

.

● Stress

As astonishing as it may seem, this English word, now fully entered into our language, is French.

Its history is abundant!

It first appeared on the Anglo-Saxon shores in the 14th century in the form of

, or

.

According to the Trésor de la langue française, it seems to come from Anglo-Norman

, which corresponds to the old French word originally from French

.

The latter also gave birth to English

.

Its meaning is the same as in Anglo-Norman:

.