Where does “lachrymate” come from?
lachrymate (English) comes from Latin lachryma, from Old Latin dacrima, from Proto-Italic *d(r)(k)akrunā, from Proto-Indo-European dáḱru-, from Proto-Indo-European dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- — eye bitter.
Ancestry of “lachrymate”, step by step