Etymology

alegar

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Today it means: vinegar produced from fermented ale. Full definition →

French aigre
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The story

  1. French · derived fromaigre“sour”
  2. English todayalegar

ale + French aigre (“sour”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.