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Where does “tilfelli” come from?

tilfelli (Old Norse) comes from Middle Low German tōval, from Latin accidēns, from Latin accidō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

Ancestry of “tilfelli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germantōvaloccasion, instance
2Latinaccidēns—
3Latinaccidō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “tilfelli”

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Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →