From French, toupet, who received it from German, topf, meaning tuft of hair, which also gave us top.

The PIE stem produced an abundance of useful words: Court, cohort. Even the stem of the stem, hortus, meaning garden.
But cortège, itself refers to a solemn procession.

In good standing. Of Germanic origin and thus PIE, stand. Also in German Stadt, and Dutch, Stad, for town.

To impoverish.

From Latin, to drink, according to one dictionary. we pilfered it from French. But now I am confused, as I see from today’s Goodword that the verb for to drink in Latin is bibere. Is there a subtle distinction I am missing?

Nice one call copse.

One would suspect that this should be spelled wheelbarrel, as it is much easier to transport a barrel on wheels than to hoist it....but NO! It is the compound word: wheelbarrow. Perplexing to me, until I checked the etymology of barrow, which means a mound, such as a hill. AND also a stretcher for c...

Has this been adopted by English speakers? I saw this in the book about Major Taylor, the premier professional bicycle racer from the turn of the last century. It means a list of prize winners. He is certainly on the list.

Late Latin binarius, from Latin bini two by two.

Agreed. Is it one of the “click” languages? I often thought that the first languages were probably imitations of sounds humans heard in the woods and savannah and thus the bushmen clicks.

From our old buddy Latin. The Latin roots translated to English are: not, through, and road. In other words, not penetrable.

From Latin, meaning iron. In English
: containing or consisting of iron. A person who shoes horses is a farrier.

Here’s an interesting bit of speculation: the Latin is possibly of Etruscan origin from Semitic. If so, there was substantial trade in the prehistoric Mediterranean.

William HUPY. NOT Tupy.

This looks French and is. It means an innocent young woman.

This appears to be Germanic in origin, but is not. From Latin.