Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. nonchaloirFrenchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• nonchalant

  Danish · borrowed from

• nonchalant

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• nonșalant

  Romanian · borrowed from

• nonchalant

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• nonsjalant

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• nonchalant

  Dutch · borrowed from

• nonsjalant

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• nonchalant

  English · borrowed from

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