Basque

Meaning

Noun

A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.

Name

The language of the Basque people.

Adj

Relating to the Basque people or their language.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑːsk/

Etymology

Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

Sentences

There is a proven Basque substrate in the development of Gascon .