Where does “abrade” come from?

abrade (Latin) comes from Latin abrado, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

abrade (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present active imperative...

Ancestry of “abrade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinabradoI scratch, rub, scrape off or away, abrade; I...
2Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
3Latinābfrom, away from, out of
4Proto-Germanic*ab—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →