In honor of the Norman Conquest--anniversary this week!

Speaking of language and derivations that resulted from the incorporation of French (and all its interesting derivations) into the English language.....Poet, for example, we got from the Old French word poete, which entered French from Greek via Latin. In Greek, there's poiein, a verb meaning "to create." And in Greek there is poetes, "maker, poet." In Middle English, "poetry" at first referred to creative literature as a whole.