Where does “assaillant” come from?
assaillant (French) comes from French assaillir, from Old French assalir, from Latin assaliō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
assaillant (French): assailant; assailling
Definitions
- assailant; assailling
Ancestry of “assaillant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | assaillir | to assail; to assault; to attack |
| 2 | Old French | assalir | to jump on; to attack; to assault |
| 3 | Latin | assaliō | to jump on, attack |
| 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 |