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Where does “allaicter” come from?

allaicter (Middle French) comes from Old French alaitier, from Latin allactō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

allaicter (Middle French): to breastfeed

Definitions

  1. to breastfeed

Ancestry of “allaicter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchalaitierto breastfeed
2Latinallactō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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