Where does “alunage” come from?
alunage (French) comes from French aluner, from French alun, from Old French alum, from Latin alūmen, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
alunage (French): aluming
Ancestry of “alunage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | aluner | to alum |
| 2 | French | alun | alum |
| 3 | Old French | alum | alum |
| 4 | Latin | alūmen | — |
| 5 | English | -ium | 1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft... |
| 6 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |