Where does “æfintýr” come from?
æfintýr (Old Norse) comes from Middle Low German êventü̂re, from Old French aventure, from Vulgar Latin adventura, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
Ancestry of “æfintýr”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle Low German | êventü̂re | — |
| 2 | Old French | aventure | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | adventura | — |
| 4 | Late Latin | adventurus | adventure; about to arrive; an adventure |
| 5 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 6 | Latin | adveniō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “æfintýr”