Etymology Explorer › Middle English

Where does “anent” come from?

anent (Middle English) comes from Old English onemn, from Old English enm, from Translingual en, from English ethylenediamine, from English diamine, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine.

Ancestry of “anent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishonemnby; near
2Old Englishenm—
3Translingualen—
4EnglishethylenediamineThe diamine NH-CH-CH-NH that is used in organic...
5EnglishdiamineAny compound containing two amino functional...
6EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
7English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
8French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
9French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
10Middle French-é—
11Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
12Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
13Proto-Italic-ā—
14Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “anent”

  • anent
  • thereanent
  • foreanent
  • foreanent
  • thareanent
  • hereanent
  • anent
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