Where does “sfaglio” come from?
sfaglio (Italian) comes from Italian sfagliare, from Italian fagliare, from Italian faglia, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire — to bend; to lie, deceive.
sfaglio (Italian): first-person singular present indicative of...
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- first-person singular present indicative of...
Ancestry of “sfaglio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | sfagliare | To discard; To jink |
| 2 | Italian | fagliare | — |
| 3 | Italian | faglia | fault |
| 4 | French | faille | fault; flaw; third-person singular present... |
| 5 | French | faillir | to almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt |
| 6 | Middle French | faillir | to fail |
| 7 | Old French | falir | to fail; to err; to make a mistake |
| 8 | Vulgar Latin | fallire | — |
| 9 | Latin | fallō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰwel- | to bend; to lie, deceive |
Words derived from “sfaglio”