Where does “impost” come from?

impost (Middle French) comes from Latin impōsitus, from Latin impōnō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “impost”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	impōsitus	imposed, put upon
2	Latin	impōnō	to place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon
3	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
4	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
5	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6	Proto-Italic	en	in
7	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Words derived from “impost”

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Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →