Where does “áinsí” come from?
áinsí (Irish) comes from Old Irish áinsid, from Latin accūsātīvus, from Latin accūsō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
áinsí (Irish): accusative case
Definitions
- accusative case
Ancestry of “áinsí”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Irish | áinsid | accusative case |
| 2 | Latin | accūsātīvus | accusative |
| 3 | Latin | accūsō | to blame, reproach, make a complaint against, find fault with |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |