email

email /ee'mayl/  (also written `e-mail')
   1. n. Electronic mail automatically passed through computer
   networks and/or via modems over common-carrier lines.  Contrast
   {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}.  See {network
   address}.  2. vt. To send electronic mail.

   Oddly enough, the word `emailed' is actually listed in the OED;
   it means "embossed (with a raised pattern) or perh. arranged in a
   net or open work".  A use from 1480 is given. The word is derived
   from Old French `emmaill"ure', network.  A French correspondent
   tells us that in modern French, `email' is a hard enamel obtained
   by heating special paints in a furnace; an `emailleur' (no final e)
   is a craftsman who makes email (he generally paints some objects
   like jewels and cook them in a furnace).