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Jean-Paul Chauveau
Delocutives are normally formed from conventional phrases of the same language. However, due to the pervasive presence of Latin in cultivated and religious circles up to the 20th century, French borrowed from that language a small series of delocutives. Regional languages have been no less present as a source of delocutives, at least in the areas where they are spoken. This article studies three delocutives borrowed from Breton, a neo-Celtic language spoken in Western France. Two of them are new discoveries for French etymology; they shed light on a third delocutive, long known but of controversial origin.
