French etiquette

The English word etiquette is about how to behave and accepted protocol.

Not surprisingly etiquette is also a French word with the same meaning.  However lets look in a little more detail into this word.

The ~ette ending is frequently used in French to show a smaller version of something. For example a courgette (zuchini) is a small marrow which is a courge in French.

So why does etiquette have an ~ette ending?

The origin of the word etiquette is from small cards which were written or printed  instructions for how to behave properly at court.

So etiquette are small cards and we can modify this word to create a new verb which is etiqueter which is the verb "to label" which of course a card is a kind of label.