Note sur d´ anciennes colonies gasconnes en Pays Basque

Summary
Three examples of words from Gascony are given. These words are used in the zone between Donostia -San Sebastián and the Bidasoa though they are not the only words: Urgull,nHiguer and Molinao. The explanation to these words is the existence of small colonies from Gascony during the Middle Ages. Donostia - San Sebastián was possibly a trilingual society in the XVI century where the language from Gascony and the Basque language the languages that were actually spoken by the people and the Spanish language was the official languageSing up and download the publications of Eusko Ikaskuntza
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