email (French) comes from English email, from Middle French email, from Old French esmal, from Latin smaltum, from Frankish smalt, from Proto-Germanic smeltaną, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meld- — to soften, to melt.
email (French): enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze
Definitions
enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze
Ancestry of “email”, step by step
email traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.