Where does “ad-” come from?
ad- (English) comes from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
ad- (English): near, at; toward, to, tendency, or addition
Definitions
- near, at; toward, to, tendency, or addition
Ancestry of “ad-”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 2 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 3 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 4 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |