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Where does “aventuren” come from?

aventuren (Middle English) comes from Old French aventurer, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

Ancestry of “aventuren”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchaventurer—
2Old Frenchaventure—
3Vulgar Latinadventura—
4Late Latinadventurusadventure; about to arrive; an adventure
5Latinadventusarrival, approach, advent; Advent
6Latinadveniō—
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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