Etymology

portefeuille

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French portefeuille ← Middle French feuille ← Old French fueille
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The story

  1. Frenchporte
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₃-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰolh₃yom?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰelh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰolh₁yom?
  6. Proto-Italic*foljom
  7. Classical Latinfolium
  8. Late Latinfolia
  9. Old Frenchfueille
  10. Middle Frenchfeuille
  11. Frenchfeuille
  12. Frenchportefeuille
  13. English todayportefeuille

Borrowed from French portefeuille.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.