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Where does “nonaffricate” come from?

nonaffricate (English) comes from English affricate, from Latin affricatus, from Latin affrico, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

nonaffricate (English): Any sound that is not an affricate

Definitions

  1. Any sound that is not an affricate

Ancestry of “nonaffricate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaffricateA sound produced using a combination of a plosive...
2Latinaffricatusrubbed
3LatinaffricoI rub on or against something; I communicate or...
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →