tournament

TOOR-nuh-muhnt · noun

Origin

Tournament comes from Old French tornoiement (which survives in Modern French as tournoiement), itself formed from the verb tornoier.

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It entered English from that Old French noun.

Tornoiement is built on the verb tornoier, so the two are directly linked in French.

From Old French

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