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The French name la Manche has been used since at least the 17th century.[1] The name is usually said to refer to the sleeve (la manche) shape of the Channel. Folk etymology has derived it from a Celtic word meaning 'channel' that is also the source of the name for the Minch in Scotland,[2] but this name is not attested before the 17th century, and French and British sources of that time are clear about its etymology.[3] The name in French has been directly adapted in other languages as either a calque, such as Canale della Manica in Italian or the Ärmelkanal in German, or a direct borrowing, such as Canal de La Mancha in Spanish.[citation needed]