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Where does “infanterie” come from?

infanterie (Middle French) comes from Spanish infantería, from Spanish Infante, from Old Spanish ifante, from Latin īnfāntem, from Latin īnfāns, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

Ancestry of “infanterie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishinfanteríainfantry
2SpanishInfante—
3Old Spanishifante—
4Latinīnfāntem—
5Latinīnfāns—
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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