Where does “Fehler” come from?

Fehler (German) comes from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.

Fehler (German): fault, error, mistake

Definitions

  1. fault, error, mistake

Ancestry of “Fehler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanfehlento lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,...
2Middle High Germanvælen
3Old Frenchfailliralternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err
4Latinfallēre

Words derived from “Fehler

Every word from Latin fallēre
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