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Where does “alluvious” come from?

alluvious (English) comes from Latin alluvius, from Latin alluviō, from Latin alluō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

alluvious (English): alluvial

Definitions

  1. alluvial

Ancestry of “alluvious”, step by step

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