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Where does “avoweth” come from?

avoweth (English) comes from English avow, from Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle.

avoweth (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “avoweth”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishavowTo declare openly and boldly, as something...
2Middle Englishavowen—
3Old Frenchavouer—
4Latinadvocāre—
5LatinAd—
6Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
7Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
8LatinolleArchaic form of ille
9Proto-Italic*olnos—
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