Where does “acquérir” come from?

acquérir (French) comes from Middle French acquerir, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

acquérir (French): to acquire, to obtain; to purchase; to gain, to...

Definitions

to acquire, to obtain; to purchase; to gain, to...

Ancestry of “acquérir”, step by step

acquérir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French acquerir

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Middle French	acquerir	to acquire
2	Old French	aquerre	to acquire
3	Latin	acquīrō	to acquire or obtain
4	Latin	ad-	to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
6	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
7	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8	Proto-Italic	en	in
9	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

via German akquirieren

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	German	akquirieren	to acquire (to gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own)
2	Italian	acquisire	to acquire; to gain
3	Spanish	adquirir	to acquire; to buy
4	Latin	adquīrere	—

Words derived from “acquérir”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →