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Where does “accusant” come from?

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

accusant (English): An accuser

Definitions

  1. An accuser

Ancestry of “accusant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccusansblaming; accusing; accusant
2Latinaccūsō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →