Where does “enfant” come from?

enfant (French) comes from Middle French enfant, from Old French enfant, from Latin īnfāntem, from Latin īnfāns, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

enfant (French): child

Definitions

  1. child

Ancestry of “enfant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchenfantchild
2Old Frenchenfantchild
3Latinīnfāntem—
4Latinīnfānsspeechless, inarticulate
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “enfant”

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