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Modern lesson continues the Middle English form with spelling stabilization.

Middle English lesson or lessoun adapts Anglo-French leçon.

Anglo-French leçon continues Late Latin lectiō through regular Romance sound and spelling development.

Latin lectiō is formed from the reading stem associated with legere.

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.