köken: Inherited from Old French large, from Latin largus, larga, largum (“abundant, plentiful, copious, large, much”). The feminine is inherited and even generalised for both genders, but for the old masculine, Latin largum (the masculine and neuter accusative) developed into Old French larc, which was discarded.
aile: de long en large, en long en large, large d'esprit, ratisser large
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros Proto-Italic *louðeros Old Latin loeber Latin līber Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin līberālislbor. Portuguese liberal Learned borrowing from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”).