Morpheme
Loyal
Type
free base
Denotation
true, faithful, honorable
Etymology
Middle French loyal; Old French loial, leial, leal; Latin lēgālis, from lēx + -ālis
Evidence
disloyal, disloyalness, disloyalty, loyal, loyaler, loyalest, loyalism, loyalist, loyally, loyalness, loyalty
Notes
<l> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable
