Where does “ençenço” come from?
ençenço (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese encensso, from Latin incēnsum, from Latin incensus, from Latin incendō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Ancestry of “ençenço”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | encensso | — |
| 2 | Latin | incēnsum | — |
| 3 | Latin | incensus | set on fire; burnt; excited |
| 4 | Latin | incendō | — |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “ençenço”