Where does “disallowance” come from?
Disallowance comes from Old French desallowance, from Latin disallocāre meaning "to assign away," combining dis- "away" and allocāre "to assign," from ad- "to" and locāre "to place," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád "to."
disallowance (English): The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing...
Definitions
- The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing...
Ancestry of “disallowance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | allow | To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield;... |
| 2 | Middle English | allowen | — |
| 3 | Old French | alouer | Alternative form of aloer |
| 4 | Latin | allocō | to hire |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |