Where does “envergure” come from?

envergure (French) comes 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.

envergure (French): wingspan; scale; magnitude

Definitions

  1. wingspan; scale; magnitude

Ancestry of “envergure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchen-en- all meanings
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 “envergure”

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