Where does “-en” come from?

-en (French) comes from Italian -ana, from Spanish -ana, from Latin -ana, from Latin -anus, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

-en (French): -an

Definitions

  1. -an

Ancestry of “-en”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-ana-an, -y
2Spanish-anafeminine singular of -ano
3Latin-anainflection of -ānus: ## nominative/vocative...
4Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
5Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
6Proto-Italic*-om—
7Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “-en”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →