Where does “rive” come from?
rive (Haitian Creole) comes from French arriver, from Middle French arriver, from Old French ariver, from Latin adripo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
rive (Haitian Creole): happen
Ancestry of “rive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | arriver | to arrive; to happen; to be able to, to manage |
| 2 | Middle French | arriver | to arrive |
| 3 | Old French | ariver | to arrive |
| 4 | Latin | adripo | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |