Where does “sortileger” come from?

sortileger (English) comes from English sortilege, from Old French sortilège, from Medieval Latin sortilegium, from Latin sortilegus, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

sortileger (English): A magician

Definitions

  1. A magician

Ancestry of “sortileger”, step by step

sortileger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sortilege

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsortilegeWitchcraft, magic, especially as a means of...
2Old Frenchsortilège
3Medieval Latinsortilegiumwitchcraft
4Latinsortilegusthat predicts the future; fortune-telling,...
5Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
6Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
7Latinlegōto collect, gather, bring together, catch
8Latinlēxa proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
9Proto-Italiclēg-
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s
11Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

via English ER

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
2Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
3Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
4Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
5Proto-Turkicēdersaddle
Every word from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-