Where does “empennage” come from?

empennage (French) comes from French empenner, 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.

empennage (French): fletching; empennage

Definitions

  1. fletching; empennage

Ancestry of “empennage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchempennerto fletch to attach feathers to an arrow
2Frenchen-en- all meanings
3Old Frenchen-en- in; into
4Latinīn-un-, non-, not
5Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “empennage”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →