Where does “insolvent” come from?
insolvent (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from German insolvent, from Italian insolvente, from Italian in-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
insolvent (Norwegian Nynorsk): insolvent
Ancestry of “insolvent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | German | insolvent | insolvent |
| 2 | Italian | insolvente | insolvent |
| 3 | Italian | in- | un-; in-; a- |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |