Where does “enhorten” come from?
enhorten (Middle English) comes from Old French enorter, from Latin inhortor, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
Ancestry of “enhorten”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | enorter | to encourage |
| 2 | Latin | inhortor | I incite or instigate |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |