Where does “autel” come from?
autel (Norman) comes from Old French autel, from Old French alter, from Latin altāre, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
autel (Norman): altar
Ancestry of “autel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | autel | altar; similar |
| 2 | Old French | alter | — |
| 3 | Latin | altāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | adoleō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |