Etymology

attornment

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Today it means: The consent of a tenant to the transfer of his relationship to his landlord to another person. Full definition →

Old French atorner
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromatorner“to turn”
  2. English todayattornment

From Old French atorner (“to turn”), through Middle English with the suffix -ment.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchatorner all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.