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Wouldn't the French escale also have stemmed from the latin scala at some point?
Good call. According to wiki, the French escale is descended from the Latin scala (ladder)
EDIT: I misread. The modern French word escale (port of call) descended from the Latin scala (ladder), but the similar Old French word escale/eschale (hard skin covering) came from the Old High German scala (similar meaning). BUT, the Norse skala (measuring device) mentioned in the meme DID descend from the Latin scala (ladder)!
I was curious. Apparently scale as in scale model also comes from the Latin scala. After learning that I went to OED to learn more...
33 meanings. This is where my journey ends today. 🤣
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I like your funny words, magic man
Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There's no "native" French that's somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic ("gallicus") roots to be found there.
Few Celtic roots*
For instance char comes from the Celtic carros.
Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.
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