The story
- Latin · derived fromiter
- Old French · derived fromerre“journey, march, way”
- Middle English · inherited fromeire
- English todayeyre
From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englisheire all →
eyrie
Latiniter all →
itererrantarrant
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.