It would sound silly to me if someone said there was a dish called la raclette fondue since there is no such thing that Im aware of Put it to a romand that way and yeah they might laugh Put as an etymological link laughs are unlikely Either way though sourcing on the origins of French gender is often way thin I recall hearing about some wastefully expensive Acadmie francaise study into French word gender and they mostly came up with a big fat blank no hint of any linguistic patterns and scant etymology I think they were hoping for gender rules they could shove at schoolkids or something Anyway I agree the sourcing on this hasnt been nearly enough for some of the editors whove looked at this article and unless by some fluke something shows up later I have no worries about it not being in the text