Where does “asalt” come from?
asalt (Old French) comes from Old French assaut, from Vulgar Latin assaltus, from Latin assultus, from Latin assiliō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
asalt (Old French): assault; attack; offensive
Definitions
- assault; attack; offensive
Ancestry of “asalt”, step by step
asalt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French assaut
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | assaut | assault; attack |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | assaltus | — |
| 3 | Latin | assultus | an assault |
| 4 | Latin | assiliō | to spring or leap (to or upon); rush (at) |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Italian assalto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | assalto | assault, raid, storming; hold up; bout |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | assaltus | — |
| 3 | Latin | assaliō | to jump on, attack |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |