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To give just one example, check out this online dictionary of French family names; here's the etymology of De Gaulle (from the Dawance-Decroix page):Apparemment, il s'agit de la francisation d'un nom flamand, De Walle, qui signifie sans doute le Wallon (= l'étranger, celui qui n'appartient pas au peuple germanique, du vieux-haut-allemand walah = étranger, également à l'origine des toponymes Gaule et Galles).
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I had not finished, when, lowering her pretty head to scrutinize my crabbed handwriting, she cried, "It is certainly he, the américain-flamand!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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Betoverde Weereld_, or _The Enchanted World_, [Footnote: _Le Monde enchanté, ou Examen des sentimens touchant les esprits, traduit du flamand en français_ (Amsterdam, 1694, 4 vols., in-l2).
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