Where does “voile” come from?

voile (French) comes from Old French voile, from Vulgar Latin vela, from Latin vēlum, from Proto-Italic *wekslom.

voile (French): veil; sail; sailing

Definitions

  1. veil; sail; sailing

Ancestry of “voile”, step by step

voile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French voile

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchvoilesail
2Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
3Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
4Proto-Italic*wekslom—

via Old French voil

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchvoil—

Words derived from “voile”

Every word from Proto-Italic *wekslom →Every word from Latin vēlum →Every word from Vulgar Latin vela →