Where does “affricative” come from?
affricative (English) comes from English affricate, from Latin affricatus, from Latin affrico, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
affricative (English): An affricate
Definitions
- An affricate
Ancestry of “affricative”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | affricate | A sound produced using a combination of a plosive... |
| 2 | Latin | affricatus | rubbed |
| 3 | Latin | affrico | I rub on or against something; I communicate or... |
| 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 |