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Where does “emmerder” come from?

emmerder (French) comes from French en-, from Old French en-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

emmerder (French): To bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of"...

Definitions

  1. To bug, bother, irritate "the shit out of"...

Ancestry of “emmerder”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchen-en-
2Old Frenchen-en-
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “emmerder”

  • emmerdeur
  • emmerdement
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →