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Where does “advertisen” come from?

advertisen (Middle English) comes from Middle French advertir, from Old French avertir, from Latin advertō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

Ancestry of “advertisen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchadvertirto warn
2Old Frenchavertirto inform; to notify; to notice; to remark
3Latinadvertō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →