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.
As the title says, I'm interested in the semantic difference between these two words. OALD gives the definition of fowl as a bird that is kept for its meat and eggs, for example a chicken.. Poultry is defined by the same dictionary as chickens, ducks and geese, kept for its meat and eggs..