Where does “faliti” come from?

faliti (Serbo-Croatian) comes from German fehlen, from Middle High German vælen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallēre.

faliti (Serbo-Croatian): to lack, to miss, to be short of (be without something necessary for another action)

Definitions

  1. to lack, to miss, to be short of (be without something necessary for another action)

Ancestry of “faliti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanfehlento lack; to be absent from, to be missing from,...
2Middle High Germanvælen—
3Old Frenchfailliralternative infinitive of falir; to fail, err
4Latinfallēre—
Every word from Latin fallēre →Every word from Old French faillir →Every word from Middle High German vælen →