Where does “inhale” come from?
Inhale comes from Latin inhalare, formed from the prefix in and the verb halare, meaning to breathe.
inhale (English): To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or...
Definitions
- To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or...
Ancestry of “inhale”, step by step
inhale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin inhalo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | inhalo | I breathe in, inhale |
| 2 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 3 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 4 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin inhālāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | inhālāre | — |
| 2 | Latin | halare | present active infinitive of hālō; second-person... |
Words derived from “inhale”