Where does “voil” come from?

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

voil (Irish): voile

Definitions

  1. voile

Ancestry of “voil”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvoileA light, translucent cotton fabric used for...
2Frenchvoileveil; sail; sailing
3Old Frenchvoilesail
4Vulgar Latinvelasynonym of īriō; nominative/accusative/vocative...
5Latinvēluma cloth, covering, curtain, veil, awning
6Proto-Italic*wekslom—
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