Where does “polyinsaturé” come from?
polyinsaturé (French) comes from French insaturé, from French in-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
polyinsaturé (French): polyunsaturated
Ancestry of “polyinsaturé”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | insaturé | unsaturated |
| 2 | French | in- | in-; un- |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |