Where does “entwinement” come from?

entwinement (English) comes from English entwine, from English En-, from Middle English en-, from Old French en-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

entwinement (English): A situation of being entwined; an entanglement

Definitions

  1. A situation of being entwined; an entanglement

Ancestry of “entwinement”, step by step

entwinement traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English entwine

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishentwineTo twist or twine around something
2EnglishEn-Forms a transitive verb whose meaning is to make the attached adjective
3Middle Englishen-en-, in-
4Old Frenchen-en- in; into
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English ment

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishmentsimple past tense and past participle of meng;...
2Korean멘트
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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