Where does “enverguro” come from?

enverguro (Esperanto) comes from French envergure, from French en-, from Old French en-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

enverguro (Esperanto): wingspan

Definitions

  1. wingspan

Ancestry of “enverguro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchenvergurewingspan; scale; magnitude
2Frenchen-en- all meanings
3Old Frenchen-en- in; into
4Latinīn-un-, non-, not
5Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en
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