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Where does “carbonise” come from?

carbonise (French) comes from French carboniser, from Latin carbōnem, from Indo-European *ker.

carbonise (French): first-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “carbonise”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcarboniserto char
2Latincarbōnem—
3Indo-European*ker—
Every word from Indo-European *ker →