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Where does “inavouable” come from?

inavouable (French) comes from French avouable, from French avouer, from Old French avoer, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

inavouable (French): unmentionable; guilty

Definitions

  1. unmentionable; guilty

Ancestry of “inavouable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchavouablerespectable, reputable; blameless
2Frenchavouerto avow; to confess; to approve
3Old Frenchavoer—
4Latinadvocō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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