Where does “ail” come from?

ail (French) comes from Old French ail, from Latin allium, from Proto-Indo-European ālu-.

ail (French): garlic

Definitions

  1. garlic

Ancestry of “ail”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchail
2Latinalliumlate form of ālium
3Proto-Indo-Europeanālu-

Words derived from “ail

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ālu-