Where does “feil” come from?
feil (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Middle Low German feil, from French faille, from French faillir, from Middle French faillir, from Old French falir, from Vulgar Latin fallire, from Latin fallō, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰwel- — to bend; to lie, deceive.
feil (Norwegian Bokmål): wrong; error, mistake
Ancestry of “feil”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | feil | — |
| 2 | French | faille | fault; flaw; third-person singular present... |
| 3 | French | faillir | to almost do something; to fail; to go bankrupt |
| 4 | Middle French | faillir | to fail |
| 5 | Old French | falir | to fail; to err; to make a mistake |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | fallire | — |
| 7 | Latin | fallō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰwel- | to bend; to lie, deceive |
Words derived from “feil”