Arabic exports

racketbat for tennis

Tennis began as a game played with the palm of the hand, and the leading theory is that racket goes back to Arabic rāḥa 'palm of the hand', which medieval Latin medical texts borrowed for the wrist bones. The noisy 'racket' is a different word.

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The road to English

From Old French to Middle French, French

700 CEArabic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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