Where does “annexen” come from?
annexen (Middle English) comes from Old French annexer, from Medieval Latin annexare, from Latin annexō, from Latin annectō, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle.
Ancestry of “annexen”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | annexer | to join |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | annexare | — |
| 3 | Latin | annexō | — |
| 4 | Latin | annectō | — |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |