Gascony

Origin

From Old French Gascoigne, from Gasconia, from Wasconia, from Duchy of Vasconia from Latin Vascones, plural of Vasco, from Ancient Greek ουασκωνους, as used by Strabo in his Geographica (23 CE), Book III.

Larry Trask, The History of Basque Routledge: 1997 ISBN 0-415-13116-2

either from αἴξ ("goat") (literally “he-goat people”), or variant of Ausci (from which Aquitan, Occitan, and perhaps related to Euskara). Cognate to Basque (compare to Gascon).

For sound changes: /v/ → /w/ occurred in the change from Latin to Proto-Romance, while /w/ → /g/ common in (non-Iberian) Romance languages, notably French; compare warranty and guarantee, William and Guillaume. By contrast, /v/ developed into /b/ and /β̞/ in Spanish and Gascon, under influence of Basque, hence the divergence.

Full definition of Gascony

Proper noun

1. A former region of France that was eliminated during the French revolution.