Where does “incident” come from?

incident (Middle French) comes from Old French incident, from Latin incidens, from Latin incidere, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “incident”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Old French	incident	—
2	Latin	incidens	falling upon; cutting up, hewing open;...
3	Latin	incidere	present active infinitive of incidō;...
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

Words derived from “incident”

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