The story
- French · derived fromtourte“meat pie”
- Canadian French · derived fromtourtière
- English todaytourtière
From Canadian French tourtière, from a cooking vessel of the same name, from French tourte (“meat pie”). There is a common false etymology that it derives from the alternative meaning tourte (“passenger pigeon”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchtourte all →
tourte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.