lijance
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom lige (“vassal”) + -ance.
Noun
editlijance oblique singular, f (oblique plural lijances, nominative singular lijance, nominative plural lijances)
Descendants
edit- → Middle English: legiaunce, legance, legeaunce, leggaunce, lejance, liegeance, ligeance, ligeaunce, liegeaunce, lygeaunce, lygiauns
- ⇒ Anglo-Norman: alegaunce
- → Middle English: alegiaunce, alegeaunce, allegence, aliegiaunce, a-ligeaunce, alligiaunce
- English: allegiance
- Scots: allegiance
- → Middle English: alegiaunce, alegeaunce, allegence, aliegiaunce, a-ligeaunce, alligiaunce