le sud.
les quatre points cardinaux sont le sud, l'ouest, le nord et l'est. (French do not capitalize these words)
The French word for south is "sud."
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une pieuvre (this is a Norman word) and un poulpe (this the word used in the South of France)
The origin is not certain, there is a French word 'Cohorte' meaning 'companion' which was in use by the French settlers in the South and West of the USA. Early 1820's
The word anglais comes from an old name for south-east England which was Anglia. The french name for England, angleterre, means land of the angles.
Provence is a french word which doesn't have a translation into English. It is the name of a region in south eastern France running from Marseilles to Nice.
Fabric made in Nimes in the south of France."from Nimes"- in French: de Nimes. (the terminal 'es' in French is silent)
Provence is a french word which doesn't have a translation into English. It is the name of a region in south eastern France running from Marseilles to Nice.
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'Orléans' is the name of a big town South of Paris. It does not mean anything in English (and nothing in French, too)
You can say "du sud" in French to mean "from the south."
In Occitan (in the south of France) it means 'the field'. Similar words exist in other Romance languages. The word 'prairie' which means a big or wide field in French is related to this word as it is derived from the French word 'pré'.