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Where does “aider” come from?

aider (Old French) comes from Latin adiuto, from Latin adiuvo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “aider”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinadiutoI help, serve, assist; dative masculine singular...
2LatinadiuvoI help, assist; I cheer
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “aider”

  • aidant
  • aydant
  • aydaunt
  • aidant
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →