Where does “avenir” come from?

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

avenir (Old French): to happen

Definitions

  1. to happen

Ancestry of “avenir”, step by step

avenir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin adveniō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadveniōto come to, to arrive
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via Latin advenīre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadvenīre—
2Latinvenīre—

Words derived from “avenir”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →