French

…English speakers borrowed volition from French in the 17th century, using it at first to mean an act of choosing, a meaning Herman Melville employed in Moby Dick with these words, almost simultaneously with a mighty volition of ungraduated instantaneous swiftness, the white whale darted through the weltering sea.…

…However, they use data from French birth records from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which is not really relevant to modern women as it was based on a population with very different living conditions, health care, nutrition, and life expectancy compared to modern women.…

…There's a news report that the French, who heretofore have not lifted a finger, have sent escort combatants, sent destroyers and frigates to the Red Sea.…