Where does “enchaînement” come from?

enchaînement (French) comes from French enchaîner, 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.

enchaînement (French): sequence, series, chain; resyllabification

Definitions

  1. sequence, series, chain; resyllabification

Ancestry of “enchaînement”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchenchaînerto chain, to shackle; to subjugate, to enslave;...
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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →