The story
- Latin · derived fromambāges
- Old French · derived fromambages
- Middle English · inherited fromambages
- English todayambages
From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishambages all →
ambage
Latinambāges all →
ambage
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.