Etymology

faileth

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English fail ← Middle English failen ← Old French falir
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The story

  1. Classical Latinfallere
  2. Vulgar Latin*fallīre
  3. Old Frenchfalir
  4. Middle Englishfailen
  5. Englishfail
  6. English todayfaileth

From fail + -eth.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.