Where does “amuser” come from?
amuser (Middle French) comes from Old French amuser, from Old French a-, from Latin ad-, from Proto-Italic *ad-.
amuser (Middle French): to amuse, divert, babble
Ancestry of “amuser”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | amuser | to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought |
| 2 | Old French | a- | indicating movement towards something;... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *ad- | — |
Words derived from “amuser”