The purpose of this study is to record and comment on the standard words and some of the dialect words for horse in French- and Provençal-speaking territory. Since the horse is a part of the every-day life of a people, it was felt to be of some linguistic interest to see what terms were used or had been used in the past in referring to or designating this domestic animal. Most of the words were gathered from glossaries and dictionaries listed in Professor W. von Wartburg's Bibliographie des dictionnaires patois.