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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

  1. In alluvial fashion

Ancestry of “alluvially”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishalluvialPertaining to the soil deposited by a stream; A...
2Latinalluviusalluvial
3Latinalluviō—
4Latinalluō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →