The word "poultry" comes from Middle Englishpultry or pultrie, itself derived from Old French/Norman word pouletrie. The term for an immature poultry, pullet, like its doubletpoult, comes from Middle English pulet and Old French polet, both from the Latin word pullus, meaning a young fowl or young animal. The word "fowl" is of Germanic origin (cf. Old EnglishFugol, GermanVogel, DanishFugl).