lijance
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Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lige (“vassal”) + -ance.
Noun[edit]
lijance 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