Etymology

Renault

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Today it means: A surname from French. Full definition →

French Renault ← Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*Raginawaldaz
  2. French · borrowed fromRenault
  3. English todayRenault

Borrowed from French Renault, itself derived from Proto-Germanic *Raginawaldaz. Doublet of Reynold.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Germanic*Raginawaldaz all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.