| 1 | German | Vogt | steward |
| 2 | Middle High German | voget | — |
| 3 | Old High German | fogat | — |
| 4 | Latin | vocātus | — |
| 5 | Classical Latin | advocatus | One called to aid; advocate, attendant; witness,... |
| 6 | Latin | advoco | I call, invite or summon someone to a place,... |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |