The story
- Old French · derived fromnonchaloir“to be unconcerned”
- French · borrowed fromnonchalant
- English todaynonchalant
Borrowed from French nonchalant, from Old French nonchaloir (“to be unconcerned”), from non- (“not”) + chaloir (“to have concern for”), from Latin non (“not”) + calēre (“to be warm”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.