-eaux

Louisiana Creole restaurant food truck in California using the "geaux" spelling as a partial replacement of "to go."

‑eaux is the standard French language plural form of nouns ending in ‑eau, e.g. eau → eaux, château → châteaux, gâteau → gâteaux.

In the United States, it often occurs as the ending of Cajun surnames, as well as a replacement for the long "O" (/oʊ/) sound in some English words as a marker of Cajun, or more broadly Louisiana, identity.[1]

  1. ^ Dajko, Nathalie (2018). "The Continuing Symbolic Importance of French in Louisiana". Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. pp. 156–157. ISBN 978-1-4696-3881-2. OCLC 1029104648.