The story
- Occitan · derived fromcagot
- French · borrowed fromcagot
- English todayCagot
Borrowed from French cagot, from Occitan cagot, of uncertain origin, traditionally speculated to be connected to the Visigoths; according to modern postulation, possibly equivalent to cagar (“to defecate”) + -ot (diminutive suffix).
Words from the same roots
Occitancagot all →
caygotte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.