Where does “rally” come from?
Rally comes from French railler, from Latin ad combined with a root related to Proto-Indo-European wer-, meaning to speak or turn.
rally (English): A public gathering or mass meeting that is not...
Definitions
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not...
Ancestry of “rally”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle French | rallier | — |
| 2 | Old French | ralier | to gather up; to collect up |
| 3 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 4 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 5 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “rally”