Where does “emploien” come from?

emploien (Middle English) comes from Old French emploier, from Latin implicō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “emploien”, step by step

emploien traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French emploier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old FrenchemploierAlternative form of emploiier
2Latinimplicōto entangle, entwine
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Old French emploiier

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchemploiierto fold on itself; to use; to make use of
2Latinimplicāre—
3Latinplicāre—

Words derived from “emploien”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →