Where does “encourager” come from?

encourager (French) comes 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.

encourager (French): to encourage

Definitions

  1. to encourage

Ancestry of “encourager”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchencoragierto encourage
2Old Frenchen-en- in; into
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “encourager”

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