The story
- Latin · derived fromprope“near”
- Vulgar Latin · derived frompropeānus
- Old French · derived fromprochain
- Anglo-Norman · borrowed fromprochein
- English todayprochein
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman prochein, from Old French prochain, from Vulgar Latin propeānus, from Latin prope (“near”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchprochain all →
prochein ami
Latinprope all →
approach
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.