Word Origin Summary

Cortois is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• courtois

  French · inherited from

• cortois

  Middle Dutch · borrowed from

• courtoys

  Middle French · derived from

• courtouais

  Norman · derived from

• kurteisi

  Icelandic · derived from

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