Where does “addormire” come from?

addormire (Neapolitan) comes from Late Latin addormio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

addormire (Neapolitan): to put to sleep

Definitions

  1. to put to sleep

Ancestry of “addormire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late LatinaddormioI begin to sleep; I fall asleep, go to sleep
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-