Where does “avouer” come from?
avouer (French) comes from Old French avoer, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
avouer (French): to avow; to confess; to approve
Definitions
- to avow; to confess; to approve
Ancestry of “avouer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | avoer | — |
| 2 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |