Where does “in-” come from?

in- (Indonesian) comes from Dutch in-, from French in-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

in- (Indonesian): in-: used with certain words to reverse their meaning

Definitions

in-: used with certain words to reverse their meaning

Ancestry of “in-”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Dutch	in-	from the adverb in; prepended to a noun or...
2	French	in-	in-; un-
3	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
4	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
5	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6	Proto-Italic	en	in
7	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →