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Where does “accumb” come from?

accumb (English) comes from Latin accumbō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

accumb (English): To recline, as at table

Definitions

  1. To recline, as at table

Ancestry of “accumb”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccumbō—
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “accumb”

  • accumbency
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →