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Where does “énouer” come from?

énouer (French) comes from French nouer, from Middle French nouer, from Old French noer, from Vulgar Latin notare, from Latin natō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

énouer (French): to remove the knots from, to unknot

Definitions

  1. to remove the knots from, to unknot

Ancestry of “énouer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnouerknot; tie, bind, fasten; tie up
2Middle Frenchnouerto knot
3Old Frenchnoerto swim; to knot
4Vulgar Latinnotarepresent active infinitive of notō; second-person...
5Latinnatō—
6Latin-tō—
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus—
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →