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.
Poultry also includes other birds that are killed for their meat, such as the young of pigeons (known as squabs) but does not include similar wild birds hunted for sport or food and known as game. The word poultry comes from the French/Norman word poule, itself derived from the Latin word pullus, which means small animal.