Where does “encourage” come from?
encourage (French) comes from French encourager, from Old French encoragier, from Old French en-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
encourage (French): inflection of encourager:
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Definitions
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Ancestry of “encourage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | encourager | to encourage |
| 2 | Old French | encoragier | to encourage |
| 3 | Old French | en- | en- |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |