Gourcuff or Gourkuñv also associated to Corcuff is a surname, and may refer to;
''Gourkuñv'' derives from ''gour'' and ''kuñv'' which means a charming, affable, gentle or conciliatory man in
Breton
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
**Breton people
**Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Gale ...
. Like for the surname ''
Henaff'', the
digraph
Digraph, often misspelled as diagraph, may refer to:
* Digraph (orthography), a pair of characters used together to represent a single sound, such as "nq" in Hmong RPA
* Ligature (writing), the joining of two letters as a single glyph, such as " ...
''-ff'' was introduced by Middle Ages' authors to indicate a
nasalized
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
...
vowel.
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Christian Gourcuff (born 1955), French football manager
*
Guillaume de Gourcuff, Breton noble who participated in the
Sixth Crusade
The Sixth Crusade (1228–1229), also known as the Crusade of Frederick II, was a military expedition to recapture Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land. It began seven years after the failure of the Fifth Crusade and involved very little actua ...
. His name is mentioned in the third
Salle des Croisades.
*
Laurent de Gourcuff (born 1976 or 1977), French businessman
*Marguerite de Gourcuff aka
Daisy de Galard, French journalist
*
Yoann Gourcuff
Yoann Miguel Gourcuff (born 11 July 1986) is a French former professional Association football, footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder. He could also be utilized as a Second striker, withdrawn striker; he was described as a "pla ...
(born 1986), French footballer
References
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Breton-language surnames