Where does “inoculate” come from?

inoculate (Middle English) comes from Latin inoculatus, from Latin inoculo, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “inoculate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latininoculatus
2LatininoculoI ingraft an eye or bud of one tree into another,...
3Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
4Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
5Old Latinenin
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én