Where does “disloyalty” come from?
Disloyalty comes from Old French desloiauté, formed from the prefix des- and a root ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European dwóh₁ and leǵ-, meaning to separate or divide.
disloyalty (English): An act of being disloyal; a betrayal,...
Definitions
- An act of being disloyal; a betrayal,...
Ancestry of “disloyalty”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | desloiauté | disloyalty |
| 2 | Old French | loiauté | loyalty |
| 3 | Old French | loiaus | inflection of loial: ## masculine oblique... |
| 4 | Old French | loial | loyal |
| 5 | Old French | leial | Alternative form of loial |
| 6 | Latin | lēgālis | legal |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |