Where does “arriver” come from?
arriver (French) comes from Middle French arriver, from Old French ariver, from Latin adripo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
arriver (French): to arrive; to happen; to be able to, to manage
Definitions
- to arrive; to happen; to be able to, to manage
Ancestry of “arriver”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | arriver | to arrive |
| 2 | Old French | ariver | to arrive |
| 3 | Latin | adripo | to land, come ashore |
| 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 |