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Where does “acuser” come from?

acuser (Middle English) comes from Old French accusour, from Latin accūsātor, from Latin accūsō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

Ancestry of “acuser”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchaccusouraccuser
2Latinaccūsātor—
3Latinaccūsō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “acuser”

  • accuser
  • accusor
  • accuseress
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →