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Where does “fejlagtig” come from?

fejlagtig (Danish) comes from Danish fejl, from Middle Low German feil, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire, from Latin fallō — to bend; to lie, deceive.

fejlagtig (Danish): wrong; mistaken, erroneous

Definitions

  1. wrong; mistaken, erroneous

Ancestry of “fejlagtig”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danishfejlwrong; wrongly, erroneously, mis-; mistake, error
2Middle Low Germanfeil—
3Frenchfaillefault; flaw; third-person singular present...
4Frenchfaillirto almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt
5Middle Frenchfaillirto fail
6Old Frenchfalirto fail; to err; to make a mistake
7Vulgar Latinfallire—
8Latinfallō—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵʰwel-to bend; to lie, deceive
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