align

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*līnom
2. Latin · derived fromlineare“make straight or perpendicular”
3. Old French · derived fromalignier
4. Middle French · derived fromaligner
5. Middle English · inherited fromalynen
6. English todayalign

From Middle English alynen, alinen (“copulate”), from Middle French aligner, from Old French alignier, from a- + lignier, from Latin lineare (“make straight or perpendicular”), from the noun linea (“line”), from līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”), likely ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *līnom (compare linen).

Words from the same roots