Where does “ammortimento” come from?
ammortimento (Italian) comes from Italian ammortire, from Vulgar Latin admortire, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
ammortimento (Italian): numbness
Ancestry of “ammortimento”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | ammortire | to deaden, numb; to muffle , dim |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | admortire | to kill; present active infinitive of *admortēscō |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |