Where does “īfeġn” come from?

īfeġn (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic ibahs, from Proto-Indo-European (h₁)ebʰ- — climbing.

Ancestry of “īfeġn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicibahsivy
2Proto-Indo-European(h₁)ebʰ-climbing
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (h₁)ebʰ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic ibahs →