Oxford on-line dictionary

Recently, I was reviewing some class notes dowloaded from the Internet and I came across what I thought an error.
The professor did put that manufacturing was a word first coined by the English. Being a francophone that did advanced English studies in one of the best CEGEP in Quebec (Jean-de-Brebeuf run by the Jesuits), we learned that most English words to actually come from either French and German and the French ones usually evolving from Latin.

Since there is always too much pro-English propaganda even at the University levels, I needed to ascertain the situation and I did not want to be accused myself of anti-English propaganda. I just wanted to give to Cesar what was rightfully his. Therefore I needed an information source that made authority. And yes, there exists out there such an incredible source of information where you can verify any allegations. It is the on-line English dictionary made by the Oxford University:
http://www.askoxford.com/dictionaries/?view=uk

They give you complete ethymology of all English words and I could gather that
"— ORIGIN French, from Italian manifattura, influenced by Latin manu factum ‘made by hand’."

Thus proving that I was right and I had to make sure that my own classroom notes would reflect the thruth.

Luc Rolland