The word for folder has an interesting history. It came into English in the 16th century from the French verb filer, to string on a thread. This relates to storing documents by tying them together with string. It comes from the Latin filum, meaning thread, from which we also get our word filament.
Common misspellings of the word chicken are: 1  chicken in french. 2  chicken in spanish. 3  chicken in german. 4  chicken in italian. 5  chicken in portuguese.
Gallina is the correct word, pollo is chicken, gallina is hen. My understanding is that el gallo is the word for a live rooster and el pollo is the word for the meat of a chicken. These are some of our hens Gallinas, they lay eggs so they're hens.