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Where does “approchable” come from?

approchable (French) comes from French approcher, from Old French aprochier, from Latin approprio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

approchable (French): approachable

Definitions

  1. approachable

Ancestry of “approchable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchapprocherto approach, to come close to, to move towards
2Old Frenchaprochierto approach
3LatinapproprioI make it my own, appropriate
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 →