Where does “noysaunce” come from?

noysaunce (Middle English) comes from Old French nuisance, from Old French nuisir, from Latin nocēre.

noysaunce (Middle English): Injury, harm, damage

Definitions

  1. Injury, harm, damage

Ancestry of “noysaunce”, step by step

noysaunce traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French nuisance

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchnuisance—
2Old Frenchnuisirto harm
3Latinnocēre—

via Anglo-Norman nusaunce

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normannusaunce—

Words derived from “noysaunce”

Every word from Latin nocēre →Every word from Old French nuisir →Every word from Old French nuisance →