Where does “alarme incendie” come from?
alarme incendie (French) comes from French incendie, from Latin incendium, from Latin incendō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
alarme incendie (French): fire alarm
Definitions
- fire alarm
Ancestry of “alarme incendie”, step by step
alarme incendie traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French incendie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | incendie | fire; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | incendium | A fire, inferno, conflagration; heat; torch;... |
| 3 | Latin | incendō | to set on fire, burn, kindle |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via French alarme
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | alarme | alarm |
| 2 | Italian | all'arme | a command to take up arms and be ready to fight: to arms! |
| 3 | Latin | arma | defensive arms, armor/armour, shields, weapons of... |
| 4 | Late Latin | armistitium | — |
| 5 | Latin | sistere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | stísteh₂ti | to be standing up, to be getting up |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | steh₂- | to stand |