Where does “ad-” come from?

ad- (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd — to, at.

ad- (Latin): to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...

Definitions

  1. to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...

Ancestry of “ad-”, step by step

ad- traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European h₂éd

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂édto, at

via Proto-Italic *ad-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italic*ad-ad

Words derived from “ad-”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd →