Where does “impôt” come from?

impôt (French) comes from Middle French impost, from Latin impōsitus, from Latin impōnō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

impôt (French): tax

Definitions

Ancestry of “impôt”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Middle French	impost	—
2	Latin	impōsitus	imposed, put upon
3	Latin	impōnō	to place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon
4	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
5	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
6	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7	Proto-Italic	en	in
8	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Words derived from “impôt”

impost

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