Where does “approuchier” come from?
approuchier (Middle French) comes from Old French aprochier, from Latin approprio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
approuchier (Middle French): to approach
Definitions
- to approach
Ancestry of “approuchier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | aprochier | to approach |
| 2 | Latin | approprio | I make it my own, appropriate |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 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 |