The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*weǵ-“to be strong, lively, awake”
- Latin · derived fromvigilia“wakefulness, watch”
- Old French · derived fromvigile
- Middle English · inherited fromvigile“a devotional watching”
- English todayvigil
From Middle English vigile (“a devotional watching”), from Old French vigile, from Latin vigilia (“wakefulness, watch”), from vigil (“awake”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be strong, lively, awake”). Doublet of Wigilia. See also wake and vigor, from the same root.
Words from the same roots
Latinvigilia all →
vigily
Proto-Indo-European*weǵ- all →
waitvigourbuzurg
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.