Where does “alliance” come from?
alliance (French) comes from French allier, from Old French alier, from Latin alligō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
alliance (French): alliance, union; wedding ring
Definitions
- alliance, union; wedding ring
Ancestry of “alliance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | allier | to ally; to alloy |
| 2 | Old French | alier | to unite; to join together |
| 3 | Latin | alligō | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “alliance”