Where does “indentured” come from?
indentured (English) comes from English indenture, from French endenture, from Old French endenteure, from Old French endenter, from Latin dēns, from Italian dente, from Latin dens, from Proto-Italic dents — to eat.
indentured (English): simple past tense and past participle of...
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Ancestry of “indentured”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | indenture | A contract which binds a person to work for... |
| 2 | French | endenture | — |
| 3 | Old French | endenteure | — |
| 4 | Old French | endenter | to provide with teeth |
| 5 | Latin | dēns | a tooth |
| 6 | Italian | dente | tooth; cog, prong |
| 7 | Latin | dens | tooth; a spike, prong, or any tooth-like... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | dents | tooth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃dónts | tooth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ed- | to eat |