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@KelsonV
That's an interesting example!
Especially when you consider that 'furniture' apparently comes from #MiddleFrench 'fourniture', and that #French itself also has 'meubles'.
I wonder if it has anything to do with how furniture was used? Was #English furniture bulkier and thus its focus was more on 'furnishing', rather than being 'movable' (French 'meuble', and Latin 'mōbilis' before that)?
Looking at the list of translations, the Latin form seems to be predominant: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/furniture#Translations
