Where does “arrive” come from?
Arrive comes from Middle English arriven, from Old French ariver, from Vulgar Latin arripo, combining Latin ad- (to) with a root ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd.
arrive (English): To reach; to get to a certain place; To obtain a...
Definitions
- To reach; to get to a certain place; To obtain a...
Ancestry of “arrive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | arriven | — |
| 2 | Old French | ariver | to arrive |
| 3 | Latin | adripo | to land, come ashore |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |