Where does “avowadow” come from?

avowadow (Cornish) comes from Cornish avowa, from English avow, from Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.

avowadow (Cornish): admissible

Definitions

  1. admissible

Ancestry of “avowadow”, step by step

avowadow traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Cornish avowa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishavowato acknowledge, admit, avow, confess
2EnglishavowTo declare openly and boldly, as something...
3Middle Englishavowen
4Old Frenchavouer
5Latinadvocāre
6LatinAdtoward, to
7Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
8Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
9LatinolleArchaic form of ille
10Proto-Italic*olnosthat

via Cornish adow

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Cornishadow
Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos