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Where does “autour” come from?

autour (French) comes from Old French ostur, from Latin auceptor, from Latin accipiter, from Latin accipio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

autour (French): around; around, about; goshawk

Definitions

  1. around; around, about; goshawk

Ancestry of “autour”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchosturgoshawk
2Latinauceptor—
3Latinaccipiterhawk, merlin; a rapacious man
4LatinaccipioI receive, accept, take; I hear , learn , learn;...
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “autour”

  • otou
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →