Where does “arrival” come from?
Arrival comes from English arrive, from Vulgar Latin arripo, from Latin ad- meaning "to," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád.
arrival (English): The act of arriving or something that has...
Definitions
- The act of arriving or something that has...
Ancestry of “arrival”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | arrive | To reach; to get to a certain place; To obtain a... |
| 2 | Middle English | arriven | — |
| 3 | Old French | ariver | to arrive |
| 4 | Latin | adripo | to land, come ashore |
| 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 |