Where does “quytaunce” come from?
quytaunce (Middle English) comes from Old French quitance, from Latin quietantia, from Latin quiētans, from Latin quiētor, from Latin quiētus, from Latin quiēscō, from Latin quiēs, from Proto-Italic kʷiētis — to rest; rest, peace.
Ancestry of “quytaunce”, step by step