Where does “flicaille” come from?
flicaille (French) comes from French -aille, from Italian -aglia, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis.
flicaille (French): cops; pigs; the fuzz
Ancestry of “flicaille”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | -aille | Forming feminine nouns having a colloquial or... |
| 2 | Italian | -aglia | Used to create female collective nouns, often... |
| 3 | Latin | -ālis | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ālis | — |