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Gater et Gateau Hi All! How do you think is there any historical and linguistic connection between french words "gater" and "gateau"?

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J'en étais persuadé mais apparemment non. D'après le Wiktionnaire, gâteau vient de gastel, qui vient du vieux-francique (une langue germanique française, qui a eu une faible influence sur le français, qui est une langue latine) wastil --> wist en anglo-saxon. https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gastel#fro Alors que gâter vient de gaster, qui vient du latin vastare ("dévaster"), https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaster#fro
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Yes, spoiled products, spoiled evening but to spoil kids or your beloved as well. Look what I found in the dictionary: 1. [enfant] to spoil Il aime gâter ses petits enfants. He likes to spoil his grandchildren. 2. [fruit, récolte] to spoil
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I do not think so. You mean that the verb gâter can be used in the sense to spoil a child, for example. However the mail meaning of this word is different: to spoil something (spoiled milk).

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