Where does “alluvially” come from?
alluvially (English) comes from English alluvial, from Latin alluvius, from Latin alluviō, from Latin alluō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
alluvially (English): In alluvial fashion
Definitions
- In alluvial fashion
Ancestry of “alluvially”, step by step
alluvially traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English alluvial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | alluvial | Pertaining to the soil deposited by a stream; A... |
| 2 | Latin | alluvius | alluvial |
| 3 | Latin | alluviō | The act of washing upon or overflowing, inundation, flood |
| 4 | Latin | alluō | to lap (flow near or past) |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |