Where does “avenue” come from?

avenue (Old French) comes from Old French avenir, 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.

Ancestry of “avenue”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchavenirto happen
2Latinadveniōto come to, to arrive
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-un-, non-, not
5Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “avenue”

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