The story
- Latin · derived fromoboediō
- Old French · derived fromobeïssance
- Middle English · inherited fromobeisaunce“obedience, obeisance”
- English todayobeisance
From Middle English obeisaunce (“obedience, obeisance”), from Old French obeïssance, derived from obeïssant (“obedient”), participle of obeïr (“to obey”), from Latin oboediō, obēdiō; ob- (“to, for”) + audiō (“to hear”). Cognate with obedience.
Words from the same roots
Latinoboediō all →
obey
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.