Where does “alai” come from?
alai (Anglo-Norman) comes from Old French aloi, from Old French aloiier, from Latin alligō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Ancestry of “alai”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | aloi | — |
| 2 | Old French | aloiier | assemble, join |
| 3 | Latin | alligō | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “alai”