User talk:Actarus176

List of English words of French origin
Please read the first paragraph of the article -

A great number of words of French origin have entered the English language to the extent that many Latin words have come to the English language. According to different sources, 45% of all English words have a French origin.[1] This fact suggests that 80,000 words should appear in this list; this list, however, only includes words imported directly from French, such as both joy and joyous, and does not include derivatives formed in English of words borrowed from French, including joyful, joyfulness, partisanship, and parenthood. It also excludes both combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e. g.: ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway — and English-made combinations of words of French origin — i. e.: grapefruit (grape + fruit,) layperson (lay + person,) mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender, petticoat, and straitjacket. This list also excludes words that come from French but were introduced into the English language via a language other than French, which include commodore, domineer, ketone, loggia, lotto, mariachi, monsignor, oboe, paella, panzer, picayune, ranch, vendue, and veneer.

- in particular the highlighted line.

Thank you. Denisarona (talk) 12:12, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

You seem not to understand what you highlighted yourself. Read the examples and you will see the difference between a word with a French origin but imported via another language (such a word should not be in the list) and a word of Latin/Greek or whatever origin imported into English via French, which is the case of almost all the words of this list. Actarus176 (talk) 13:13, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

List of English words of French origin
According to Wictionary the word trade has the following etymology: From Middle English trade (“path, course of conduct”), introduced into English by Hanseatic merchants, from Middle Low German trade (“track, course”), from Old Saxon trada (“spoor, track”), from Proto-Germanic *tradō (“track, way”), and cognate with Old English tredan (“to tread”). According to the OED the word commerce comes from Latin (commercium). That is the reason why they were reverted. Denisarona (talk) 13:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

According to Merriam-Webster commerce is from Middle French commerce, itself from Latin. Actarus176 (talk) 18:52, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

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