limousine

Borrowed from French limousine, an adjective referring to Limoges and the surrounding region of Limousin. That name traces back to Latin Lemovices, a Gaulish tribe of central France, likely named for their elm bows and spears — the same root that gives us elm.

First attested in English in 1902, the word shifted from describing a place and its people to naming a style of car, though the facts here don't detail how that leap happened.

Limousine shares its ultimate root with elm, both tracing back to the Gaulish tribe's association with elm wood.