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The Middle English learned form stabilizes as modern legible with later English stress and vowel development.

Middle English legible borrows Late Latin legibilis with English phonological adaptation.

Late Latin legibilis is formed from Latin legere “to read” with an ability suffix.

Latin legere is traditionally assigned to the *leǵ- family; *sleǵ- remains a published alternative.

Greek λέγω is traditionally derived from PIE *leǵ-; some scholarship argues that an initial *s should be reconstructed.

λόγος is a verbal noun in the λέγω family, with an o-grade formation represented in traditional analysis.

Greek ἐτυμολογία contains the -λογία formation belonging to the λόγος family.

Latin borrowed Greek ἐτυμολογία.

Old French transmitted the learned Latin form.

English adapted the learned French form and later aligned spelling with the classical model.