According to Egon Friedell, "bigot" is of the same [[root]] as "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoth visigoth]". In Vulgar [[Latin]], the initial v [[transformed]] into b (a [[phenomenon]] today encountered in Iberian languages, such as [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish Spanish] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese Portuguese]; visi had truncated into bi in Vulgar Latin (a phenomenon common in French and Portuguese). | According to Egon Friedell, "bigot" is of the same [[root]] as "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoth visigoth]". In Vulgar [[Latin]], the initial v [[transformed]] into b (a [[phenomenon]] today encountered in Iberian languages, such as [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish Spanish] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese Portuguese]; visi had truncated into bi in Vulgar Latin (a phenomenon common in French and Portuguese). |