The story
- Latin · derived fromacētum“vinegar”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*acētillum
- Old French · derived fromaisil
- Middle English · inherited fromaisel
- English todayeisel
Inherited from Middle English aisel, eisel, from Old French aisil, eisil (“vinegar”), from Vulgar Latin *acētillum, a diminutive of Latin acētum (“vinegar”). Compare Cornish aysel and Welsh aesel.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.