Where does “lieu” come from?
Lieu comes from French lieu, from Latin locum (accusative of locus, meaning "place"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European stel-, meaning "to place" or "to stand."
lieu (English): place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of
Definitions
- place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of
Ancestry of “lieu”, step by step
lieu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.