From Italian and initially Latin for mountain foot.

You are forgiven. I agree that newcomers should be encouraged to become frequent contributors. All in the spirit of expanding our knowledge and enjoyment of linguists.

I understand this is from italian, meaning earth baked. And before that from Latin, I suppose, with the same meaning. It is the reddish brown clay used in pots, tiles and warriors.

From German, meaning original home…meaning the original home
Land of the speakers of a Proto-language.

I heard it on an episode of Midsommer Murders.

Is this word from merry old England considered derogatory?

I’m studying French. I note that the word for the town hall is “la maire”. A town hall is a place where a couple would go to get married at a wedding. The French word for wedding is “mariage”. The French word for husband? Mari. All from Latin, as, it appears, are to be found in the romance languages.

This combines two words in Japanese, for piling up and reading. It means acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf.

This comes to us, relatively recently from French, as one who undertakes. However, the root, prendre, goes way, way back to PIE, Ghent, to grasp, seize. From that root also we received prehensile.

The Good Word doctor used this word today and it occurred to me that I may not have understood the context. The etymology has a distinguished Greek and French history. I looked for the PIE root, which means....to look, see. This word in English means, relating to meaning in language or logic. I susp...

A district defined for purposes of government and representation. This comes from Latin, meaning to gird about, to surround. Prae, cingere. before cinch.

From French for street urchin. Now a slim, pert young girl.

Both roots are Greek. They combine the Greek for growing old with treatment.

Cancer, crab and canker. All related. Who’d have thunked?

Bombastic. I see this comes from Latin, turgidus , meaning swollen, inflated, distended, but is it related to turbulent?