inveigle comes from Anglo-French enveogler, from Old French aveugler 'to blind, delude', from aveugle 'blind', from Vulgar Latin ab oculis 'without eyes'. The path is chiefly one of transmission: the word passes through the named languages and forms, with each stage preserving part of the modern shape. In present English, the verb sense is "to persuade by flattery or deceit; to entice", so the historical development ends in a clearly identifiable modern dictionary use. The same base also remains productive in derivatives such as inveiglement and inveigler. Its semantic neighborhood includes entice, cajole, wheedle, and coax, which helps locate the modern sense without adding a separate etymological claim. The named historical forms include Old French aveugler and Latin oculus.