Where does “a” come from?
a (French) comes from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
a (French): to; on the, to; at
Ancestry of “a”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | avie | emulously |
| 2 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 3 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 4 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 5 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |