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Where does “aliance” come from?

aliance (Old French) comes from French alliance, from French allier, from Old French alier, from Latin alligō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

Ancestry of “aliance”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchalliancealliance, union; wedding ring
2Frenchallierto ally; to alloy
3Old Frenchalierto unite; to join together
4Latinalligō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “aliance”

  • alliance
  • misalliance
  • realliance
  • antialliance
  • alliaunce
  • alaiens
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