Where does “portcolyse” come from?
portcolyse (Middle English) comes from Old French porte coleice, from Old French colëiz, from Vulgar Latin *colātīcius, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- — to turn.
Ancestry of “portcolyse”, step by step