praise · noun1
- Middle English · inherited frompraise
- English todaypraise
From Middle English praise, preyse, from the verb (see below). Doublet of prize. Displaced native Middle English lof from Old English lof (“praise”) and Middle English loenge, loange from Old French löenge, löange (“praise”).
praise · verb2
- Late Latin · derived frompretiō“to value, prize”
- Old French · derived fromproisier, preisier“to value, prize”
- Middle English · inherited frompraisen, preisen
- English todaypraise
From Middle English praisen, preisen, from Old French proisier, preisier (“to value, prize”), from Late Latin pretiō (“to value, prize”) from pretium (“price, worth, reward”). Displaced native Middle English herien from Old English herian (“to praise”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.