Where does “affirmen” come from?
affirmen (Middle English) comes from Old French affermer, from Latin affirmare, from Latin affirmo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Ancestry of “affirmen”, step by step
affirmen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French affermer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | affermer | — |
| 2 | Latin | affirmare | present active infinitive of affirmō;... |
| 3 | Latin | affirmo | I present as fixed, firm, or true; affirm,... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |