Where does “Battle” come from?
Battle derives from Old French bataille, which combined Old French -ier with Latin -are and Latin -arius, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰew-.
Battle (English): from places in England that have been sites of a battle
Definitions
- from places in England that have been sites of a battle
Ancestry of “Battle”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | batel | Alternative form of batayle; flourishing |
| 2 | Old English | batol | improving, tending to be good |
| 3 | Old English | batian | to fatten, to get fatter; to improve, to get... |
| 4 | Old English | -ol | Used to form suffixes denoting inclination or... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -ulaz | Forms adjectives from verbs meaning "doing" or... |