From blend ofOld French bistarde.
The language historically of Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, resulting from a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian.
the medieval Norman dialect of Old French.
Second, Old French became as important an influence as Danish and Anglo-Saxon to the development of English as it is today.
The oldest text in a Romance language is the Oaths of Strasbourg, a document in Old French dating from A.