Where does “encourir” come from?
encourir (French) comes from French courir, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
encourir (French): to incur (to expose oneself to something inconvenient)
Definitions
- to incur (to expose oneself to something inconvenient)
Ancestry of “encourir”, step by step
encourir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French courir
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | courir | to run; to go |
| 2 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |