The story
- Old French · derived fromesclandre
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromdisclaundre
- Middle English · inherited fromdisclaundre
- English todaydisslander
From Middle English disclaundre, disslaundre, from Anglo-Norman disclaundre, from sclandre, esclandre, from Old French esclandre. See slander and compare Middle English sclaundre. By surface analysis, dis- + slander.
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchesclandre all →
slander
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.