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
Ancestry of “déloyauté”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | desloiauté | disloyalty |
| 2 | Old French | loiauté | loyalty |
| 3 | Old French | loiaus | inflection of loial:
## masculine oblique... |
| 4 | Old French | loial | loyal |
| 5 | Old French | leial | Alternative form of loial |
| 6 | Latin | lēgālis | — |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |