Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by graemep 3 hours ago
They are not. Quite a few have Latin roots and the like that corresponding French words share.
1 comments

Approximately 0.0% of those came into English through Latin, while around 100% came through Norman French.
Latin was commonly spoken amongst the educated at one time (served as a lingua franca across Europe) and used for religion and scientific discourse for even longer.