English words of Norse origin tend to be related ... Host, as in to receive guests comes also comes from French but from the Old French ‘oste.’ In the original sense it meant to receive ...

From time to time this column has delved into the foreign origins of English words, but this week I'd ... often using phrases taken straight from Latin or French for ideas that could be easily ...

Over the Caesar salad, you could casually mention that the English word romaine comes from the medieval French laitue romaine, or Roman lettuce, which possibly arrived in France along with the ...

The Old English word for man is also related to the word weraldi. The word weraldi in Proto-Germanic comes from word meaning man and word aldiz meaning age. Age of man.