Where does “entretenir” come from?
entretenir (Old French) comes from Old French tenir, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
entretenir (Old French): to support one another
Definitions
- to support one another
Ancestry of “entretenir”, step by step
entretenir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
Words derived from “entretenir”
- entertainment
- entertain
- entertaining
- entertainer
- infotainment
- entertainingly
- edutainment
- unentertaining
- advertainment
- edutain
- entertainable
- nonentertainment
- entertaineth
- eatertainment
- entertainest
- retailtainment
- shoppertainment
- agritainment
- docutainment
- entertainingness
- militainment
- entertainability
- unentertainingly
- disinfotainment