Where does “allege” come from?

allege (Latin) comes from Latin allego, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

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

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “allege”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinallegoI select, choose, recruit, elect or admit; I send...
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →