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Where does “adoptioisä” come from?

adoptioisä (Finnish) comes from Finnish adoptio, from Latin adoptio, from Latin adoptō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

adoptioisä (Finnish): adoptive father

Definitions

  1. adoptive father

Ancestry of “adoptioisä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishadoptioThe adoption of a child
2Latinadoptioadoption
3Latinadoptō—
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 →