The story
- Old French · derived fromdesareer
- Middle French · derived fromdesarroyer
- Middle English · inherited fromdisareyen“to disarray”
- English todaydisarray
From Middle English disareyen (“to disarray”), from Middle French desarroyer, from Old French desareer, from des- (“dis-”) + areer (“to array”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.