Where does “inscrutably” come from?
inscrutably (English) comes from English inscrutable, from Latin inscrutabilis, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
inscrutably (English): In an inscrutable manner
Ancestry of “inscrutably”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | inscrutable | Difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or... |
| 2 | Latin | inscrutabilis | inscrutable |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |