The story
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁ep-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éps
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁épi
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂wer-
- Latinoperiō
- Latincooperiō
- Old Frenchcovrir
- Middle Englishcoveren
- Englishcover
- Englishcoverage
- English todaycovfefe
From a tweet by Donald Trump on May 31, 2017: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”, presumably intending to write coverage. Donald Trump later tweeted: “Who can figure out the true meaning of "covfefe" ??? Enjoy!”. Sense 1 ("deliberate misspelling of coffee") is from the phonetic similarity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.