The source traces taffeta back to Persian tāftah, woven, through Turkish, Italian and French before English.
Anglo-French also intervenes between Old Italian and Middle English. Its spelling is not supplied in this entry, so it has no separate card.
Sources
- Merriam-Webster: taffeta
Word History gives the Persian gloss and route through Turkish, Old Italian and Anglo-French to Middle English.
- Online Etymology Dictionary · taffeta
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.
- Türk Dil Kurumu Sözlükleri · gts
Meanings of the older forms on the word path.