Where does “al-” come from?
al- (English) comes from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
al- (English): Alternative form of all-
Ancestry of “al-”, 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- | — |
| 3 | Latin | în | — |
| 4 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |