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Where does “ソーサリー” come from?

ソーサリー (Japanese) comes from English sorcery, from Middle English sorcery, from Middle French sorcerie, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

ソーサリー (Japanese): a sorcery

Definitions

  1. a sorcery

Ancestry of “ソーサリー”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsorceryMagical power; the use of witchcraft or magic...
2Middle Englishsorcerysorcery, wizardry, magic; A supernatural event
3Middle Frenchsorcerie—
4Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
5Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
6Latinlegō—
7Latinlēx—
8Proto-Italiclēg-—
9Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
10Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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