Where does “loyauté” come from?
loyauté (Middle French) comes from Old French loiauté, from Old French loiaus, from Old French loial, from Old French leial, from Latin lēgālis, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
loyauté (Middle French): loyalty
Ancestry of “loyauté”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | loiauté | loyalty |
| 2 | Old French | loiaus | inflection of loial:
## masculine oblique... |
| 3 | Old French | loial | loyal |
| 4 | Old French | leial | Alternative form of loial |
| 5 | Latin | lēgālis | — |
| 6 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |