English pliant

← Middle English pliaunt (inherited)

← Old French ploiant (derived)

← Old French ploiier (mention)

← Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (root)

→ English pliantly (suffix)

→ English pliantness (suffix)

→ English nonpliant (prefix)

→ English unpliant (prefix)

→ Norwegian Bokmål veik (link)