English makes no damn sense

Well, yeah, but...I found no mention of French in association with the word. Like it went straight to English from the Latin "animale" in the 14c.

Fucking internet dictionaries are worthless.

 

Were you looking in a French dictionary?

 

No. I wish I could remember where I misplaced my dictionary. Thing's the size of the Gutenberg Bible. How do you lose a book bigger than a boot box?

 

You had a French dictionary?

 

No. It's a very good dictionary tho'. You know, the kind where a word's definition starts out with, first off, where the hell the word came from to begin with...all its roots, dates included.

I haven't seen it in twenty years so I may be "misremembering".

How the fuck did that ever become a word?

 

And it tells you all the other languages that a variation of the word is used in?

 

Like I said, it's been a while. But the transition of words, from their inception to modern English, was noted. If a word ever passed through French before becoming a common English word, I'm sure that would be mentioned.

 

The Ministry of Silly Slithers?

 

In spite of common Indo-European roots and the fact that Gaul was located in part of modern day France, modern Gaelic languages have little relation to currently spoken French. Being a bit Celtic myself, I think that I can say that if you made that comparison to a native speaker of Gaelic, you would be labelled a daft wee maun. Or perhaps belabored with a shillelagh.

 

Wee

 

Did you see Vu play?

 

I was curious about whether there might be a connection.
Tossing in that nobody outside that language understands it was for humorous effect...perhaps you've not seen the movie.