Tennis, history of terms.

The Tennis is very popular game in the World. This game was created in XI-XII age in France. In that time it was known as «royal tennis». Historians is thinking that most of tennis terms was taken from French language.
 

• The word «tennis» was original from French verb «tenez» («tenir» - to take, to catch in French). When players had serving, they yelled «tenez!»; 

• «Deuce» - was original from «? deux le jeu», in English it has the same meaning;

• Score in tennis 15-30-40 origins from French words «quinze», «trente», and «quarante», or from quarters of an hour (15-30-45, but 45 was transformed to 40);

• «Love-15» It is possible that it derives from the French expression for "the egg" (l'œuf) because an egg looks like the number zero.