Editing Hogmanay (section)

===Possible French etymologies===
The term may have been introduced to [[Middle Scots]] via French. The most commonly cited explanation is a derivation from the northern French dialectal word {{lang|frm|hoguinané}}, or variants such as {{lang|frm|hoginane}}, {{lang|frm|hoginono}} and {{lang|frm|hoguinettes}}, those being derived from 16th-century [[Middle French]] {{lang|frm|aguillanneuf}} meaning either a gift given at New Year, a children's cry for such a gift, or New Year's Eve itself.<ref name=CSD/><ref name="Campbell">[[John Gregorson Campbell|Campbell, John Gregorson]] (1900, 1902, 2005) ''The Gaelic Otherworld''. Edited by Ronald Black. Edinburgh, Birlinn Ltd. {{ISBN|1-84158-207-7}} p. 575: "'Hogmanay' is French in origin. In the northern French dialect, it was {{lang|frm|hoguinané}}, going back to Middle French {{lang|frm|aguillaneuf}} (cf. {{ill|Guillaneu|fr}}), meaning a gift given on New Year's eve or the word cried out in soliciting it."</ref> The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' reports this theory, saying that the term is a borrowing of {{lang|frm|aguillanneuf}}, a medieval French cry used to welcome the new year consisting of an unknown first element plus "{{lang|frm|l'an neuf}}" ("the new year").<ref>{{cite dictionary |chapter=Hogmanay |title=The Oxford English Dictionary  |volume=v (H-k) |last=Murray |first=James A.  |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1933 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.120829/page/n330/mode/1up |via=Archive.org}}</ref>

This explanation is supported by a children's tradition, observed up to the 1960s in parts of Scotland at least, of visiting houses in their locality on New Year's Eve and requesting and receiving small treats such as sweets or fruit. The second element would appear to be {{lang|fr|l'an neuf}} ('the New Year'), with sources suggesting a druidical origin of the practice overall.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |chapter=Hogmanay |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |volume=XIII SLICE V Hinduism to Home, Earls of |edition=11 |chapter-url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39232/pg39232-images.html#ar125}}</ref> Compare those to [[Norman language|Norman]] {{lang|xno|hoguinané}} and the obsolete customs in [[Jersey]] of crying {{lang|xno|ma hodgîngnole}}, and in [[Guernsey]] of asking for an {{lang|xno|oguinane}}, for a New Year gift (see also {{lang|fr|[[La Guiannee]]}}). In Québec, {{lang|fr-x-quebec|la guignolée}} was a door-to-door collection for people experiencing poverty.<ref>Roy, Pierre-Georges [http://www.uquebec.ca/~uss1083/ssvdp/Texte%20de%20Pierre%20Georges%20ROY.pdf Les petites choses de notre histoire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125222610/http://www.uquebec.ca/~uss1083/ssvdp/Texte%20de%20Pierre%20Georges%20ROY.pdf |date=25 January 2021 }} Garneau (1944)</ref>

Compare also the apparent Spanish cognate {{lang|es|aguinaldo}}/{{lang|es|aguilando}}, with a suggested Latin derivation of {{lang|la|hoc in anno}} "in this year".<ref name=DSL/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://buscon.rae.es/drae/srv/search?val=aguilando |title=Aguilando |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=www.rae.es |publisher=Real Academia Española |access-date=21 September 2015 }}</ref>

Other suggestions include {{lang|fr|au [[wikt:gui#French|gui]] mener}} ("lead to the [[mistletoe]]"),<ref name = Chambers>{{cite book |last=Chambers |first= Robert |title=Popular Rhymes of Scotland |page=165 |publisher=Chambers |date=1870 |edition =New (fourth?) |url=https://archive.org/details/popularrhymesofs00cham/page/165/mode/1up}}</ref> {{lang|fr|à {{linktext|gueux}} mener}} ('bring to the beggars'),<ref name=Chambers/> {{lang|fr|au gui l'an neuf}} ('at the mistletoe the new year', or {{lang|fr|(l')homme est né}} ('(the) man is born').<ref name="scotland.org">[http://www.scotland.org/whats-on/hogmanay/ "Hogmanay", Scotland.org]. Retrieved 14 May 2009.</ref>