Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To unite or form a connection between (people or things), as between families by marriage, or between states by confederacy, league, or treaty. · Chiefly followed by to or with: to connect or form a relation to (someone or something) by similarity in features or nature. · To join or unite (oneself or itself) against, with, etc., someone or something else. · Chiefly followed by with: to enter into an alliance or unite for a common aim.
From Middle English allien, alien (“to form an alliance, associate, join; to become an ally; to introduce (someone) as an ally; to marry; to become related (to someone); to attack, engage in combat; to combine; (cooking) to combine ingredients, especially to bind them together”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman alier, allier, Middle French alier, allier [and other forms], and Old French alier (“to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients”) (modern French allier), from Latin alligāre, the present active infinitive of alligō, adligō (“to bind around, to, or up (something), bandage, fasten, fetter, tie; to hold fast; to detain, hinder”), from al-, ad- (intensifying prefix) + ligō (“to bind, tie; to bandage, wrap around; to unite”) (from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind, tie”)). Doublet of allay, alligate, alloy, and ligament.
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- Root classification mention*leyǵ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionallienenm
- Derivation mentionalierfrm
- Derivation mentionalierfro · to join together, unite; to alloy (metals); (cooking) to combine ingredients
- Cognate mentionallierfr
- Derivation mentionalligārela
- Derivation mention*leyǵ-ine-pro · to bind, tie
- Doublet mentionallayen
- Doublet mentionalligateen
- Doublet mentionalloyen
- Doublet mentionligamenten
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