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Where does “exaggeratest” come from?

exaggeratest (English) comes from English exaggerate, from Latin exaggeratus, from Latin exaggerō, from Latin aggero, from Latin agger, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

exaggeratest (English): second-person singular simple present form of...

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Ancestry of “exaggeratest”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishexaggerateTo overstate, to describe more than is fact
2Latinexaggeratusexaggerated
3Latinexaggerō—
4LatinaggeroI bear, carry, convey or bring to or towards a...
5Latinaggerrampart, bulwark; causeway, pier, dam, dyke
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →