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Where does “alliable” come from?

alliable (French) comes from French allier, from Old French alier, from Latin alligō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

alliable (French): alliable

Definitions

  1. alliable

Ancestry of “alliable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchallierto ally; to alloy
2Old Frenchalierto unite; to join together
3Latinalligō—
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 →