The story
- Medieval Latin · derived frominclavare
- Old French · derived fromencloyer
- Middle English · inherited fromacloyen
- English todayaccloy
From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishacloyen all →
cloy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.