Etymology

allowance

al·low·ance
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Today it means: Permission; granting, conceding, or admitting. Full definition →

Middle English allouance ← Old French alouance ← Latin allocō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Latinlaus
  6. Latinlaudō
  7. Latinallaudō
  8. Old Frenchaloer
  9. Latinad-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*stel-der.?
  11. Proto-Italic*s(t)lokos
  12. Old Latinstlocus
  13. Latinlocus
  14. Latinlocō
  15. Latinallocō
  16. Old Frenchaloer
  17. Old Frenchalouer
  18. Old Frenchalouance
  19. Middle Englishallouance
  20. English todayallowance

From Middle English allouance, from Old French alouance. Morphologically allow + -ance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.