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Where does “accrétionnaire” come from?

accrétionnaire (French) comes from French accrétion, from Latin accrētiō, from Latin accrēscō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

accrétionnaire (French): accretionary

Definitions

  1. accretionary

Ancestry of “accrétionnaire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchaccrétionaccretion
2Latinaccrētiō—
3Latinaccrēscō—
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 →