the Indo-European root meant ?to cut.?

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in 1596, hors d?oeuvre was an architectural term and indicated a piece of masonry that jutted out from the rest building

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when the Norman Conquerors arrived in England with their French a paun meant ?a walker?

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an Arabic word kazana meaning to ?store up? whose sister word makazan, meaning ?storehouse?

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the Greeks called this bird phasianos thinking they came from near the River Phasis which flows into the black sea.

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from a French word meaning ?let us drink??

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One unconvincing theory is that the back and forth nature of bargaining is related to the fact that a boat carries goods to and fro.

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It?s the flatness of the thing that gives it the name

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"Trapeza" meaning "table" was once "tetra peza" meaning ?four feet.?

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if you like what you?re reading I would hope you?d like to listen to it even more

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Jules Leotard was a French circus performer

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Couvre is easily recognizable as ?cover? and feu is the French word for ?fire.?

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the guy who came up with the stuff called it alumium at first

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Tragus in Greek meant ?billy-goat?

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Latin root of "carpenter" a craftsman who made chariots, "carpentum" was a two wheeled vehicle

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In the early 1200s surnames hadn?t caught on widely, by the end of the 1400s almost everybody had ?em.

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interview with Philip Durkin, the Principal Etymologist for The Oxford English Dictionary

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French word for ?white? is "blanc" and a blanket is so called because it was made from white fluff

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The Latin "classis" came from the same root as their word used to mean a soldier was being ?called up?

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"ordeal" was part of Old English as "ordal" and "ordel"

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