Where does “aligner” come from?

aligner (Middle French) comes from Old French alignier, from Latin lineare, from Latin līnea, from Latin līnum, from Proto-Italic līnom, from Proto-Indo-European līnom — flax.

Ancestry of “aligner”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchalignier
2Latinlinearepresent active infinitive of līneō; second-person...
3LatinlīneaA linen thread
4Latinlīnumflax
5Proto-Italiclīnom
6Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

Words derived from “aligner

Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom
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