Where does “emploi” come from?
emploi (French) comes from French employer, from Middle French employer, from Old French emploier, from Latin implicō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
emploi (French): job; employment; use; need
Definitions
- job; employment; use; need
Ancestry of “emploi”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | employer | to employ |
| 2 | Middle French | employer | to employ; to use; to make use of |
| 3 | Old French | emploier | Alternative form of emploiier |
| 4 | Latin | implicō | to entangle, entwine |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |