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Where does “agnate” come from?

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

agnate (English): A relative whose relation is traced only through...

Definitions

  1. A relative whose relation is traced only through...

Ancestry of “agnate”, step by step

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