Where does “infancie” come from?
infancie (Middle English) comes from Old French enfance, from Latin īnfāntia, from Latin īnfāns, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
infancie (Middle English): infancy
Definitions
- infancy
Ancestry of “infancie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | enfance | childhood |
| 2 | Latin | īnfāntia | inability to speak, muteness, speechlessness; want of eloquence, ineloquence |
| 3 | Latin | īnfāns | speechless, inarticulate |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |