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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...
3Latinlīnea—
4Latinlīnum—
5Proto-Italiclīnom—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanlīnomflax

Words derived from “aligner”

  • alignment
  • align
  • realignment
  • misalignment
  • realign
  • malalignment
  • nonalignment
  • aline
  • photoalignment
  • dealignment
  • aligner
  • disalignment
  • misalign
  • coalignment
  • alignable
  • prealignment
  • coalign
  • disalign
  • autoalignment
  • unalignment
  • antialignment
  • unalignable
  • dealign
  • subalignment
Every word from Proto-Indo-European līnom →