Where does “faille” come from?
faille (Middle French) comes from Old French faille, from Vulgar Latin fallita, from Latin falsus, from Latin fallō, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰwel- — to bend; to lie, deceive.
Ancestry of “faille”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | faille | failure |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | fallita | shortcoming |
| 3 | Latin | falsus | deceived, tricked, cheated, disappointed, having... |
| 4 | Latin | fallō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰwel- | to bend; to lie, deceive |
Words derived from “faille”