Gascony

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from + , from  attested in 's 1st-century , Book III, variously derived from  (literally “he-goat people”) or a variant of  (perhaps related to ). Cognate with, , and. Equivalent to.

For sound changes: /w/ → /v/ occurred in the change from Latin to Proto-Romance, while /w/ → /g/ (in loan words starting with /w/) common in (non-Iberian) Romance languages, notably French; compare and,  and. By contrast, /v/ developed into /b/ and /β̞/ in Spanish and Gascon (Spanish, /ˈbasko/), hence the divergence.

Proper noun

 * , covering southern Aquitaine.
 * , particularly under English rule.
 * , particularly under English rule.
 * , particularly under English rule.

Translations

 * Aragonese: Gascunya
 * Armenian: Գասկոն
 * Basque: Gaskoinia
 * Belarusian: Гаско́нь
 * Breton: Gwaskogn
 * Bulgarian: Гаскония, Гаскона
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 加斯科涅
 * Corsican: Guascogna, Gascogna
 * Czech: Gaskoňsko
 * Esperanto: Gaskonio
 * French:
 * Old French: Gascoigne
 * Georgian: გასკონი
 * German:
 * Greek: Γασκώνη
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: Guascogna, Gascogna
 * Japanese: ガスコーニュ
 * Korean: 가스코뉴
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: Gaskonya
 * Latin:
 * Lithuanian: Gaskonė, Gaskonija
 * Lombard: Guascogna
 * Norman: Gascongne
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Gasconha
 * Romanian: Gasconia
 * Russian: Гаско́нь
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Гаскоња
 * Roman: Gaskonja
 * Sicilian: Gascògna
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: Gaskonja
 * Spanish: Gascuña
 * Swedish: Gascogne
 * Tagalog: Gascuña
 * Thai: กัสกอญ
 * Turkish: Gaskonya
 * Ukrainian: Гаско́нь
 * Venetian: Vascogna
 * Welsh: Gasgwyn
 * West Frisian: Gaskonje