The story
- French · derived fromprise“a taking, capture, prize”
- Old French · derived fromprisage“a praising, valuing, taxing”
- English todayprisage
From Old French prisage (“a praising, valuing, taxing”) (compare Latin prisagium (“prisage”)) or from French prise (“a taking, capture, prize”). See prize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.