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Where does “s'appeler” come from?

s'appeler (French) comes from French appeler, from Latin appellō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “s'appeler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchappelerto call; to call, phone, ring; to call for,...
2Latinappellō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →