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- New Latin · derived frominternālis“of or pertaining to the inner part”
- Middle English · inherited frominternall, internalle
- English todayinternal
From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.