Where does “voile” come from?

Voile comes from French voile, from Old French voile, from Latin velum meaning a covering or cloth, from the Proto-Indo-European root weǵʰ- meaning to weave.

voile (English): A light, translucent cotton fabric used for...

Definitions

  1. A light, translucent cotton fabric used for...

Ancestry of “voile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvoileveil; sail; sailing
2Old Frenchvoilesail
3Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
4Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
5Proto-Italic*wekslom—

Words derived from “voile”

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