Where does “ليل” come from?

ليل (Hijazi Arabic) comes from French Lille, from Old French l'Isle, from Old French la, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.

ليل (Hijazi Arabic): nighttime, night

Definitions

  1. nighttime, night

Ancestry of “ليل”, step by step

ليل traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French Lille

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchLille—
2Old Frenchl'Islethe Island
3Old Frenchlathe; it
4Latinillanominative feminine singular of ille; nominative...
5Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
6LatinolleArchaic form of ille
7Proto-Italic*olnosthat

via Arabic لَيْل

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicلَيْلnighttime
2Proto-Semitic*laylay-night
Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos →Every word from Latin olle →Every word from Latin ille →