Where does “adoptivbarn” come from?

adoptivbarn (Danish) comes from Danish adoptiv, from Latin adoptīvus, from Latin adoptō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

adoptivbarn (Danish): adopted child

Definitions

adopted child

Ancestry of “adoptivbarn”, step by step

adoptivbarn traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Danish adoptiv

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Danish	adoptiv	adoptive
2	Latin	adoptīvus	adoptive (by adoption)
3	Latin	adoptō	to take by choice, choose, select
4	Latin	ad-	to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
6	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
7	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8	Proto-Italic	en	in
9	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

via Danish barn

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Danish	barn	child
2	Old Danish	barn	child
3	Old Norse	barn	child
4	Proto-Germanic	barną	child
5	Proto-Indo-European	bʰēr-	shiny, light brown

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →