Etymology Explorer › French

Where does “déloyauté” come from?

déloyauté (French) comes from Old French desloiauté, from Old French loiauté, from Old French loiaus, from Old French loial, from Old French leial, from Latin lēgālis, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

déloyauté (French): disloyalty

Definitions

  1. disloyalty

Ancestry of “déloyauté”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchdesloiautédisloyalty
2Old Frenchloiautéloyalty
3Old Frenchloiausinflection of loial: ## masculine oblique...
4Old Frenchloialloyal
5Old FrenchleialAlternative form of loial
6Latinlēgālis—
7Latinlēx—
8Proto-Italiclēg-—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- →