Where does “legal” come from?
legal (Galician) comes from Latin lēgālis, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
legal (Galician): legal
Ancestry of “legal”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | lēgālis | — |
| 2 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “legal”